Birthdays.

It was one of the volunteer's birthdays on Monday, so I thought I could do a post touching on what we do for a birthday here. Obviously, most of us are 18/19/20 so have only really spent our birthdays with family before. Or you at least spend it with friends. Here it is different though. Most if not all your friends you have only known for a year at most, although when you spend as much time with someone as we do, when you live, sleep and work with someone, we're all fairly close. Actually no, that's kind of a lie. It is very high school-y here. There is the annex, where all the 'cool kids' hang out. The ones that are all popular and free from personalities. There's flat 2 where next to no-one hangs out because there are only 3 bedrooms there and there's back kitchen where all the quirky weird people hang out (and all the kathi's...seriously there are about 6 girls here called kathi or some variation of).

Anyway.

So when it's someone's birthday, everyone puts some money in to get them a present and often a lot of people go out. On Monday I went to the Art Gallery cafe for breakfast, then a bunch of people went wine tasting before EVERYONE (I think there were 4/5 cars full) went to Moyos for tea/dinner/supper/evening meal. Moyos is really really nice. It's on Blouberg Beach so the sunsets for one are spectacular. And the food is just divine! It was a really nice evening :)

And it cost me less that 10 quid for breakfast and tea! I love this country!