I was invited by the agency of volunteers and with my colleagues
to a three-day excursion to three different places. We will go to swim underwater on Dyer Island
and watch the great white shark from a cage. The next day we will visit the animal
reservation named Inverdoorn and the last day we finish the excursion going to
Table Mountain, then we going to the Good Hope castle and finally a tour to
Greenmarket.
At day one, we were so excited for this excursion, we
wish a lot swim underwater and more with a great white shark, and it was insane
and so extreme that it fascinates us. The day arrived and we were ready. We pack
and we went to Gansbaai a popular fishing town to have a little breakfast. I
don’t want fill all my stomach because I was too nervous about swimming with
white shark so I ate a sandwich only. The bar where we took the breakfast was
precarious, made of wood and with many stuff of the sea and old barrels as
chair. After that, we took a boat that brought us to Dyer Island where we will go
to swim underwater. The moment arrived, the five of us submerge in the water
and with two instructors we went on to swim. We saw many different thing and
kind of thing. A lot of fish of different colors, beautiful one with orange and
black or red and black or even blue! I don’t ever saw a blue fish in my life
but there it was. The water was fantastic, crystalline. We could saw also
coral, sea horse, a plenty of plants, manta ray etc… All you think of is there,
all of it. But, the most important thing is when we went to the cage to see the
white shark. It was amazing, extraordinary. The sharks swimming really nearest us
and sometimes fighting each other. It was an unforgettable experience.
At day two, we went to a safari called Inverdoorn
where we watched the different type of animal
from Africa. We saw the lions
with their group and we even saw a couple procreating and a group which were
fighting and the guide explain to us that there were playing. We saw the giraffe,
rhinos, elephant etc…. The guide lets us experimented and we get on a elephant
the five of us and almost one felt.. But we saw my favorite animal doing the thing
he do the best, run faster than other exciting animal. His name is the cheetah
and I like it the most plus the lion.
On the last day we went at the Table Mountain. We came
there using aerial cable car where we saw the entire Cape Town city. It was
wonderful, that view was a onetime view. We never saw a beautiful view like
that with the entire flora we could saw there and the fantastic waterfalls. It
was the perfect view of the nature mix with city. The two views were opposite
each other. The fresh air when we were on the top filled up all us lungs of
good sensations. Then we were to the Cape Hope caste a construction built in
the 17th that it remains the historical side of Cape Town. We finish
this adventurist excursion going to Greenmarket a pretty place where people sold
different kind of things like necklaces or bracelet, this kind of thing. And it
was funny because it make remember me the ‘’ferias’’ of Uruguay because they
are very similar and I felt like home with many people offering for one article
and with the post and all that.
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I’m finally at the end of my gap year. On Monday I
will come back to my home and I will see my family and friends again. It was
the best experience of my life. As I remember, from the first day I was helping
anyone who needed. With my friends we made a lot of things for people that didn’t
have so much money to pay a good education or even worst, didn’t have a place
to stay or a house without roof. For this reason, our first three months of
volunteers we apply on construct houses and school and if it was possible, a
little church. We start with the construction work of houses. The person who
lived there, outside the city hadn’t a standard level of lifestyle, there was
horrible in some cases. So, firstly we start with the person with the worst
situation and we constructed many houses but little one. Then, we follow to
some houses without roof and we construct one. I remember very well when we
finish, the people of there were really grateful and at night they reward us
with a food called Bobotie who’s lamb meat with peach. It was delicious, it was
a flavor which I never taste it, and my mouth was plenty of good food, my tongue
dance inside me. It was memorable, and they accompany whit some typical music.
We did much friendship with the people of this little town outside the Cape
Town.
After these three months, we continue building a
little school and a church. Then, we started teaching some of the basic things
on math, history, physique etc.. They took very nice this education so, we
started to teach more thing and we bring them to some air fresh activities to reconnect
with their town and country. I remember that one night we go for a ‘’little
excursion’’ and we made a campfire and we started dancing typical music from
the country of each person. They go first and they show a Zulu dance because
some of them were zulúes and then I dance a little of ‘’péricon’’, then a Brazilian
friend made ‘’capoeira’’ and a Argentinean dance ‘’tango’’. The thing we laughed
this night was incredible. 
