This weekend Matt proposed to me in Dullstroom on our 4 year anniversary. It was an unforgettable weekend and I still have butterflies in my stomach. I am glad to say that Matt Geri is no longer my boyfriend, but is now my fiancé.
Details and more photo’s of the weekend will be coming soon 
2009 has been a year of many ups and downs for me. Here’s a toast to a successful 2010 with some good and bad memories of 2009 that I will never forget.
Ok, so for a while now I have been out of action. There are reasons for this. To summarise what I have been up to would not be fair as I have honestly been having a blast. But (yes I did just start that sentence with but) I will have to summarise it all otherwise I will be sitting here forever.
I spent Valentines day in Dullstroom (horse riding and fishing), went to a wedding, spent some time in the wild with no cellphone signal, got circled by Lions, went to a dance competition, attended a 5 year old birthday party, did a presentation about professional dancing and teaching, attended three 21st (a 50′s party, an 80′s party, and a normal party). Missed the cake cutting at two of those 21st. The cake I did have made up for the other two though.Matt and i also got new piercings.
Here are a few photo’s from all of these various events and happenings.
Claudia and Dave's Wedding, Mara's 5th birthday party, Ingwelala
Ingwelala, Matt making Breakfast, Ryan's 80's party
Debbie's 21st
Valentines day in Dullstroom
Ok, I know this post is rather late as my birthday was last week. But it’s still my birthday month, Rocktober.
I had a great birthday! The Saturday night before my birthday I had a dinner with a few friends and some random that just pitched up (definatley uninvited, maybe if he was a nicer being I would have said I didn’t mind). On my birthday itself I had a picnic in the Botanical Gardens with my family. This included good food and a BIG cake! All things in my opinion that make a birthday so great!
Here are some pictures of the dinner and the picnic.
My birthday dinner…
Matt and I
Mara in Search of Fairies…she found one!
If you guys want to see more go check out my flickr.
Why have people in South Africa become so unhelpful, actually they really just don’t care! I drive a 1964 Beetle. Why is this relevant?
Well that means I drive a car that can’t lock when you are in it (other than sticking your hand through the window to lock it with the key) because when it was made, safety wasn’t an issue. They can’t even replace the door handles with a newer models, because it is so unique. Great for safety in this country, rite? It also means my car breaks down A LOT. I actually consider myself a rather skillful driver when it comes to improvising as I constantly have to try new things to keep my car running or to get it running again (like pressing the clutch, break and accelerator at the same time with only two feet).
To get back to the point I was trying to make, is that out of all of the times I have broken down (including yesterday, as it was starting to get really dark) not once has anyone (other than taxi drivers) stopped to offer any form of help. I really appreciate the offers from the taxi drivers, but you can’t really blame me for being a bit weary of them can you.
The South African taxi drivers have really been good to me though, offering help where they can, even when they see how weary of them I am.
Why are South Africans so unhelpful? Is it because of the crime? Is it because they are scared that I will hijack them? I don’t understand it! Guys help me out here. Surely when you driving behind a young girl and everything is going well, until suddenly she randomly stops in the middle of the road, and has to roll onto the pavement… you could see something is wrong. Why does nobody help?
I have come to a point now, that I don’t even expect any help. I tell you the day I get help from a white South African is surely the day it will snow in Pretoria. People have become insensitive and uncaring towards other people, and I want to know why.
P.S: Girls I understand why you wouldn’t stop (if you are alone, no matter how much you would want to), but guys instead of staring when you drive by, how about just rolling down your window and asking if everything is ok. Is that too much to ask?
Yey! I finally received something I have been waiting a long time for. What’s in the box?
Well as i love dancing, it’s got to be two of the most amazing Dance movies with two of the most amazing dancers of all times. If you haven’t seen these movies, do yourself a favour and watch them! They are great. It might just be a bit of a mission to get hold of them in normal video stores.
So today has been a good day. Besides the fact that I was up until 3am doing an assignment on Martha Graham as an auteur, and so exhausted for the rest of the day, it was still good.
I had a great day at the studio. I love it when we give our all in class, you always feel so good afterwards.
I also found out that if you search Megg Wilson in google I am number 1…number 1. Yey. Quite surprising as it is such a new blog.
I also recieved Natasja’s photo’s from the dance fun day and they are very cute. It was a bonding day for the dance studio and it was a dress up too (the theme being dance of course). The teachers all decided to go 80′s for the day… what a laugh. We really didn’t decide to all wear those purple leotards, it was an accident. Worked out well though.
