The Krystal Khronicles: Bittersweet

Wow, what a past few days! Where to begin...on Thursday I went bungy jumping! And not just your average jump off a bridge bungy jumping, but the world's highest. It was absolutely amazing! There are no words to describe the feeling of falling and not really feeling like anything is attached to you. I would do it again in a heartbeat since you don't really realize what is going on around you because you're so hyped up on adrenaline. After this we moved on and stayed the night in a nice little B & B, woke up early the next morning, and went onto the Cango Caves. Apparently they are a huge tourist attraction, they were ok but I've seen caves before. Our tour guide insisted that we go so we did it to please her since she was doing us such a favor by only taking two of us girls on this adventure. After this, I was able to check off another thing on my list. I went ostrich riding. It was insane, you had to hold onto their wings when you rode them. I actually did quite well. They had to pull me off the ostrich. I have found my calling in life, I'm going to be an ostrich jockey! So I go to check two things off my list in two days, worth every penny or rand in this case. After these exciting days off, I went back on shift for my last time. It was very bittersweet. I'm ready to move on to this next project but the kids are so precious it is going to be very hard to not see them again. We took a few of the kids to the cinema on Saturday afternoon and they loved it. The next day we took them to church and had lollipops since it was Halloween and kids don't really have trick or treating here, especially these kids. On Monday we took the smaller kids to a little playground in the community and they just ate up being outside the children's home if only for an hour or so. It was a good last shift, I got to go out on a high note. The caretakers who stay with the kids year round were so precious my last night. They all hugged me and told me how much they would miss me, it really warmed my heart. They are such sweet women who give up so much to take care of these children. It's a tough job and these women give so much of themselves to these kids who aren't even theirs. I hope everyone is well and I will talk to you all soon.