Bigfoot

Hello again. I hope you recognize me because I am bringing back some adventure. Okay enough of that. I have always wanted to try an African dance. You maybe wonder which dance I am talking about. Well some Africans live in the country side. And they don't live in houses or flats. Instead they live in huts. By the end of the day you know after dinner or whatever they dance with fire and playing the drums. It looks very cool and it seems your having a great time.

I'm not saying that Africans who live in the country side live in some huts.

Just about outside Durban there were villages with some huts. And of course I didn't travel by myself, I got a friend with me who knows this place from the hotel. And we took a car. Anyway It is a really big difference here. In order to get food they have to hunt animals or even farm their own food said the guy from the hotel. The whole village was full with these huts. And everywhere you saw mothers making stuff like clothes for their own children. They did have different type of clothes, it almost looked as if they only had a blanket as a suit. But yeah it must be hard time making these. It was very hot and this area was in a desert.

I was able to meet the leader of this village and he didn't speak English. Luckily the guy from the hotel could translate whatever he said. But then all of sudden I got scared. Because the leader said we must hunt a big animal for lunch. I was like WHAT? HOW? I CAN’T DO THAT. But I ended up doing it, in other words I had to.

We were like ten people that hunted. I had to take all of my clothes and wear my pants. That was all. And I also had to hold a spear. Most of the other guys had a spear to but some had bow and arrows. Now the hunting begins. I had no idea what this was going to turn out. In fact I shake my whole body because I was so very nervous.

The first thing I noticed was these fellows was VERY fast and they didn't need to stop to have break. They didn't find this hard at all. I on the other hand was the last and the slowest one. I thought that this was on of the toughest thing I’ve done. I come to think of that this very good for your body and your health. I mean you exercise all the time and you get very strong and very fast. After a long time we finally got a big bull. I didn't do anything really because I was so tired and I had to breathe for like 70 years. But I saw them catching the animal and it wasn't even a challenge for them. It felt as we had run for like three hours or something. I was so exhausted that I couldn’t stand up and wave my hand.

But don't worry about me, I felt much better after getting lunch and --rest. We had plenty of meat to dinner as well so that was good too.

Time passed quickly. It was already after dinner. It was the time for dancing. It was nearly the same thing with the hunting because I had to wear the same clothes but they also painted me in the face and on my body in black and white color. Everybody else painted themselves as well. Then the dancing begun and wow, it wasn't like dancing in a ballet. It was totally crazy. But fun at the same time. We sang and put in fire and some drummed while dancing. It was going on and on the whole time. This must mean a lot to them, because you get very happy when you do this. We ended up dancing for hours. And I got to say, It was the best dancing I have ever had.