Missive from parts of Africa

A light hearted and sometimes serious look at moving 6000km into a place in Africa: April 2007. Promoted back to South Africa, the missive will continue to track my foray's into deepest Africa as and when I get there.

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Location: Joburg, Africa, South Africa

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Another day - another coconut

A chance to update has arrived!

First off – we all went off to Obuasi to play in the Group Five golf day on Sunday.

Zack was kind enough to get us a late Tee off time so we did not have to leave the house before 7am. Jeri is not a morning person and already was grumpy before the drive. Her golf on the first nine confirmed that mornings are not strong in her life.

I am not sure who arranges a medal game on a company sponsored day, but they did.

I had never played the Obuasi course and I knew it was going to be interesting when the people vanished over the hill on the first and I proceeded to drive a wonderful straight shot over the hill. The starter ran over and kaked all over me for not waiting for the people to vacate the green.

Erm – “This is a par 4” I mentioned – “I hit it long – but not that long”. It was a par 4. I checked the card – 297m. I came over the hill and my ball was some 30m from the green. Par.

The course was dead short. I drove like a demon. I scored a 91 Gross – on MEDAL!!

Jeri coined the phrase – “Adventure Golf Course on steroids”

For some reason who ever designed the course did not take into account that it is not good form to place a tee in a position where in order to make the next fairway you are driving over the green you just left. There were a lot of “Fore” shouted and balls flying all over the place.

I played well and took the honors off Alwin who kinda fell apart at the 15th after leading by 1 shot after 9. I beat him by 6. I scored a Net 67 and won the tournament. I was however disqualified from taking home a prize due to the fact I was the sponsor. Bummer if you ask me.

I have managed to catch up most of my stuff over the last week. Which is positive!!

However. It appears that some guy pushed the wrong button at head office and destroyed the mail server. The managed to recover it after a day or so, but what has now happened is my offline folder and online folder is out of synch. The net result is my mail system is as slow as a dog and falls over most of the time. Ergo mail has been patchy to say the least.

I have being cursing!

But….. it does not help.

Other than that – life goes on.

Oh yes! I got promoted!

Hope you all smiling!

I think I am

2 Comments:

Blogger Angie said...

"I think I am smiling" well I know I am, thought you had forgotten all your faithful readers ...... well done lil bro and congrats on the promotion!!!

1:49 PM  
Blogger Esther said...

congrats !

um, what's a medal game?

6:19 PM  

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