Day 4 - To Ibra

The day started off early, 7 am to be precise. "Not Nadar" was late picking us up. It kind of makes me feel a little less guilty for still calling him "Not Nadar" even though we know his name now. Jurie was given his medical card but I will only get mine later because on the card I'm "Meliisa", the newest variation of my name.

The drive was scenic and slightly nerve wrecking. "Not Nadar's" car beeps annoyingly when he drives over the speed of 120km/h (which he did a lot!) and I'm almost certain I'll be hearing that sound in my dreams. Not only that but whenever he got bored (also something that happened a lot) he would look at his IMs on his phone (That's instant messages for the older people reading the blog...hee hee)

We arrived in Ibra...it's remote...like nothing we have ever experienced.  It may be remote but the people in the college are super friendly. I mean...WOW...we were completely blown away by how nice people were. We did all the administrative stuff, like give them our biometrics (we are going to be using our finger prints to register our attendance everyday) We met the coordinators, other teachers and HODs etc. There are three other South Africans so there's a taste of home. 

Today was very draining and overwhelming. I know that may sound negative and I'm not trying to be. I feel like this part of our introduction is only normal and necessary. I have been trying to be logical in my thought processing, like,  they don't expect us to remember everything at once so it's totally ok if I forget some names and things right now, it will come to me later.

We later came back to our motel room via taxi. The college is a 10 minute drive from our motel room and not a 10 minute walk like we were initially told. But the area we are staying in now has all the shops and I think is the actual town.

We had a nice supper together at a Turkish Restaurant. We are going to look into housing, banking and hiring a car in the near future. But now I'm going to get some hard earned rest. 

Interesting fact 1: Some men don't shake women's hands here as a part of their customs/religion/culture (not sure)

Interesting fact 2 : It rained here today and it's a big thing here. We were told by one of the teachers that some students will go home because of it. 

This is a picture of the Ibra College of Technology where we are working.