Night of the Carnivore

As always, Simone and I have been busy with all different aspects of our African adventure. Our most recent escapade was to the Carnivore restaurant for our one year anniversary celebration. This event had been planned since before we flew to SA so it was crazy to finally be at this exciting and interesting restaurant. The Carnivore of Johannesburg is a wild game cooking, African themed venue that is unique to only three places in all of Africa (the Johannesburg restaurant being the only one in all of South Africa). At Carnivore, the name is very fitting as the menu consisted of zebra, impala, kudu, crocodile, and gemsbok. This was certainly not a place for any of you vegetarians! All of the meat is cooked of a giant fire pit that is in the center of the restaurant and the costume-clad circulate with the simmering meat on huge skewers. When you are ready to take for the a particular meat, the waiters use a machete-like sword and slice the wild game on to your plate (below). The entire meal is all you can eat and when you have met your maximum you surrender by lowering a paper South African flag on your table. Truly an interesting and delicious experience!

Of course, we have not lost sight in our reason for being in South Africa in the first place. Our week days have continued to be filled with volunteering at Sparrow and our shadowing at the Right to Care Themba Lethu HIV Clinic. At Sparrow, we are making our final push toward studying for upcoming exams and the big Heritage Day performance. It looks like we will be putting in some long days this week but the kids sure make it all worth it. At Themba Lethu, we were lucky enough to attend the physicians’ lecture sessions Friday morning and another session of ward rounds. It is very exciting and interesting to observe the unique patient cases that all the physicians come toward to discussion. I only wish that I was able to help contribute toward the conversations but hopefully in a few years I will get my own chance :)

Well, it is the beginning of week 7 over here and we are still going strong. Missing home more and more with every passing day, but I can happily say that RSA is taking good care of us.

Alles is goed (All is good in Afrikaans)

P.S. My computer is back and working great. Unfortunately my hard drive had to be replaced so everything this save to just my laptop is gone forever...include the now officially lost blog entry. Oh well. Win some, loss some...