EPOCHness is now a way of life...

So first of all. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAHHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAHHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAHHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can see, I jumped out of a plane and got my mind blown to the fullest. After my Xhosa exam on Monday, me and my friends Alex and Chanel decided to drive 35 minutes outside Cape Town, to casually jump out of a plane that was 10,000 ft above the earth. No big deal. When we arrived at the airplane hangar, I saw all of these hippies with dread locks chilling and packing our parachutes into a backpack. First of all, watching an extreme hippie man with dreads, who prolly just ripped the bong in the back office, pack your parachute is not necessarily the best sight to see. That is literally the most important job at the place. I’d rather have a 12 year old pilot, than have a deficient parachute packer. So I decided to ignore this event taking place in front of my eyes, and continued on with my day.

As I walked to the plane, I was stunned to see how small it was. I thought I was jumping out of a huge Air Force One type plane…because that is pretty much the only type of skydiving knowledge I have in my memory bank (for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Air Force One is an Epoch movie with Harrison Ford who just terrorizes terrorists on a plane..legit). Anyway, the plane that I jumped out of barely fit 5 people scrunched in together. We were literally sitting on each others laps…my skydiving instructor told me to never speak of this moment again. As we began our departure off the ground, I realized that I had a piece of gum in my mouth, and I definitely did not want to jump with that in my mouth because I’d prolly choke on it and die in mid air…so then I tried swallowing my gum, but I couldn’t because my mouth was so dry from being nervous so I thought I was going to choke on my gum in the plane. Damn it. Not prepared at all. So I took the gum out of my mouth and just held onto it until I jumped. Also, talking about not being prepared…nobody had even told me about the procedure on how to jump out of the plane. What the hell? Am I that stupid? I got into a plane that I was planning on jumping out of, without even knowing how the hell it was going to happen. So midway up to our highest point in the air, I leaned back to my instructor to ask him what I had to do. He looked at me as if he had made a mistake, and said “oops, we should have gone over that on the ground.” NO SHIT SHERLOCK! I just nervously laughed as he continued to tell me what to do.

The plane ride up to the top was actually very relaxing. The view was amazing, and I started to drift off into another world, and it became very peaceful for a second…but then the opposite of peaceful occurred. Suddenly, the camera man on my left opened up the airplane door, so I guessed that it was time to jump. As the camera man hung outside of the airplane door, me and my instructor got to the ledge and after two rocks back and forth, we were flying through the air.

F#%$! S#%^! M&#^#^F#&#*$! AHHHHHHHHH! I didn’t stop screaming/laughing the whole time we were free falling. We did a 35 second free fall, and then parachuted the rest of the way down (of course..duh. I don’t even know why I just wrote that…whatever). For the first 5 seconds you feel like you are falling to your death, but then you reach a point were you feel like you are floating and flying in the air, I you get to just enjoy the ride and the beautiful scenery around you. On the way down, I of course did the THIZZ FACE DANCE…possibly the highest altitude thizz face ever? Unfortunately, I didn’t tell my instructor that I get a little motion sickness, so all of the crazy spins he was making us do didn’t make Mr. Hungry Harrison (my belly) very happy. I can imagine a little stomach creature in me saying “screw you Harrison, you suck you suck you suck.” So right as we landed on the ground, the camera man and my instructor were asking questions about what it was like and would I do it again and stuff like that, but all I could say was an exasperated “Yah…yah.”

If you look at this picture you can tell what was about to happen next….totally defeated. The camera man actually and unfortunately turned off the camera at the point where I said, I think I’m going to be sick…and then I CHUNDERED! Puked my face off for a second. PERFECT end to an epoch ride.

Goldfish Concert in Kirstenbosh Garden

Kirstenbosh is literally one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. It is filled with open green grass, exotic trees and plants, is at the base of many trails that lead up to Table Mountain, and has one of the best concert venues I’ve ever been to. On Sunday, we went to see Goldfish perform (we had seen them at La Med last night, which I made a post about already). Once again they put on a great show, I was probably the sweatiest person there. I was also dancing next to a huge group of 13-14 year old boys and girls. Really awkward! Anyway, it was a great day. We brought a picnic to the park and then danced and listened to Goldfish blow our minds. By the way, South African are crazy! This one bru got on top of the really talk totem poles that were connect to some speakers, and they had to stop the concert for a second because if he fell, he would die.

Kirstenbosh is literally one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. It is filled with open green grass, exotic trees and plants, is at the base of many trails that lead up to Table Mountain, and has one of the best concert venues I’ve ever been to.

On Sunday, we went to see Goldfish perform (we had seen them at La Med last night, which I made a post about already). Once again they put on a great show, I was probably the sweatiest person there. I also ran into Corey, Allen, Phil, and Sarah Bell, and they had a great set up...they brought their hookah, a picnic with crackers, sandwiches, and all delicious niceties. YUM!

I was also dancing next to a huge group of 13-14 year old boys and girls. Really awkward! It was a great day. We brought a picnic to the park and then danced and listened to Goldfish blow our minds. By the way, South Africans are crazy! This one bru got on top of a really tall totem pole that supported the speakers, and the band had to stop the concert for a second because if he fell, he would have died.