Splashy Fen

These Mountains/hills were the back drop of the festival...they were so cool looking!
My friend Lisa and I trying desperately to escape the sun!

Sitting around the camp fire Saturday morning. Note my sneakers...I think I bought gum boots from a truck going into the festival about 5 min after this picture was taken!
Morgan, Myself, Louisa (friends in my program)
The volunteers/workers stayed about a 15 min walk from the rest of the festival, so this picture was taken from our camp site and you can see the rest of the festival in the distance (all the white dots).
A Zulu group who performed at Splashy (I think the only Zulu group actually).

Friday March 21st a big group of kids from my program went to this huge music festival in South Africa called Splashy Fen. We stayed Friday-Monday. Its nick name is the South African Woodstock. It was really fun, but the weather caused a few complications to say the least! It was in the mountains so during the day it would reach the upper 90's but at night it was FREEZING!! And it would rain every evening so there was ridiculous amounts of mud, but we still had an amazing time! By the second day we all had gotten our hands on a pain of rain boots (or gum boots as they are called here) which made a HUGE difference. Our Zulu teacher works at the festival every year so she volunteered us to work and we were given tickets and accommodation (tents) as long as we worked a few shifts so it worked out great. It was kind of rough though...we had to go straight from the festival to our third homestay! So we all arrived really muddy and tired!