Wow - what a whirlwind day!! 5h30 had us up and dressing...and as the sun rose over the harbour we were making our way through the city to our first appointment of the day...a radio interview with Bay FM, one of Port Elizabeths Local radio stations. Time being short, we gave the studio staff a rundown of the project and they decided to call us for a telephonic interview, which we could do on the road...

This decided we headed back to Woodridge College and Prep to pick up the scrolls that we had left. The school had given us great support.

As we drove out, and started making our way along the N2, Bay FM called - and we did the radio interview. It was short and sweet and well...let's hope that the message got out to lots of listeners!

The road towards Knysna is an adventure on its own. The scenery was breathtaking...and comical. Craggy hills, fields of proteas, thick forests and large bridges spanning gorges - making us think twice about our decision to do the Bloukrans Bungy - the highest bungy in the world...but no fear: we'll do it! On the comical side of the drive: we did see a sign to dial a cow....hmmm - go figure.

A combination of bad road works and slow trucks had us a bit frustrated as we found ourselves zigzagging town, and finally reaching Montessori School a few minutes late. One again, our apologies for this!

Had a great presentation to the junior school - with a fantastic response. The kids really got involved and answered questions, and made the talk such a pleasure.

We visited a few of the classrooms getting the students to sign the scroll and their complete exuberance over this project made us smile. Their Gardening Club, as seen above in the pic were so proud to show us their "green fingers". With their enthusiasm and our tight schedules, we left the scrolls with them -to be picked up later.

Thank you Tonya for your support and for having us at the school.

We next made our way to to Knysna Municipality to meet with Councillor Eleanor Bouw-Spies...the Mayor of Knysna. It was a pleasure to meet with you, and have you sign the scroll and support our project. Also thank you for your positive reaction - we would love to hear from you again in the future.

Will definately say that we were running on a bit of a minute-to-minute time schedule, but after our manic moring things definately seemed to catch up again.

Walking out of the Mayors Office, we were met by Bill Fussel, one of the directors of the volunteer programme Travellers Worldwide in South Africa. He led us to Thembelitsha School - in the Concordia location, which was our next appointment for the day!

Despite the short notice, the school princpipal kindly organised for us to meet with about 240 of the students- Gr6 & G7's.

A lot of hype to sign the scroll after the presentation...had the teachers doing "crowd control" as the students formed rows, and jostled in about 3 at a time to sign the scroll...adorning it with lots of colours, and names.

A tree planting ceremony after the scroll-signing completed our visit. We hope that the Orange Tree bears fruit for the future.

Thank you to Bill Fussel and Sharon Dreyer from Travellers Worldwide, and to their volunteers who also helped out! Also a big thank you of course, to everyone at Thembelitsha.

The idea that the day had been completed had us smiling even more, as after this chaotic week, we headed back to our hotel with that knowledge that we could now take a break...that said - we still had to change a tyre, and head back to Montessori School for our scroll - which after the tyre incident had smiles on our faces again. The colour-filled scroll is definitely an indication of their committment and effort - thank you again!

Off to meet the mayor...the wonderful mayor of George!

Bye

*Jon and Sa*