high school reunion
OK….. so I am back and can now sit and fill in more details more comfortably….
Going way back when to October (seems like a lifetime ago already). After a very long drive from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, a brief stay with my aunt and another long drive from PE to Durban, start 6.30am, I arrived at my uncles at about 11.30pm!!!!!
During that drive we passed thru the former Ciskei and the former Transkei. The word “kei” is an old dutch word meaning stones and trans comes from the latin word for crossing. I am not sure what “Cis” means in Ciskei. As we entered Kwazulu / Natal from the Transkei we had to pass disease control. This involved all of us climbing out of the bus walking over a sponge soaked in pesticides and getting back into the bus. This is to try prevent “swine fever” entering Natal.
Kwazulu/Natal is my home province and I felt quite emotional coming back after 10yrs. It was as beautiful as ever and I was happy to be “home”.
October 8th was the night of my High School reunion and the whole excuse… I mean reason I came back to South Africa. It was really weird seeing everyone again. You kind of remember the faces but have no real memory of who they were in High School. Except for the few that you have a solid memory of, Like Gareth who used to threaten to throw me over the balcony….. it was a love / hate friendship. One thing had changed for sure, some of the biggest jerks had grown up into pretty decent guys and one or two even apologised. After a few drinks everyone relaxed and we were soon chatting and hanging out. Many even knew some of the things I had been upto, like university and living in Korea. All were fairly suprised that “Kathy - head library monitor” had become a world traveller.
Got home after midnight and promptly had to wake up at 5.30 am to catch the bazbus to Pietermaritzburg and then a friend was giving me a ride to Sani Pass Lodge and the foot of the Lesotho mountains.
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