The hills

So i spent 3 weeks in Winkhoek, and pretty much nothing happend. The first two weeks were of a peace corps training, it was 8-5 and im pretty sure about 3 hours of it was interesting. Other then that i was just a bunch of PCV's hanging out, we did make a few bonfires though :-) . I think i surprised everyone when we needed some wood and I took off into the bush and came back to two downed trees.
I think the most exciting part of the first two weeks for me was our one day off. The time in the city was really about 20 km over mountains away from the city and PC was nice enough to give us a ride into town a total of one day (not back) on the weekend we had in town. That was sweet because first it me and Ben (another PCV) or the kid, he looks like a 14 year old Afrikaner. Walking around the mall ( i still hate malls as does he) before seeing a harry potter movie. After the movie things go going as we decided to peace out at about 1 from the mall and walk around town. Long story short we went to about 15 local bars since our group asked us to see if we could find a place people could by a drink (its technically illegal on Sundays). That was a wasted venture except that we hit up like every shady spot in town, then started walking back to the road to get a ride back to the conference center.
This is where i got the great idea of lets just walk back, "i think its just over those small mountains that way". Ben was sure but i was like its probably there 95% sure the center is that way through the bush and over that mountain. Now anyone else in the group would have thought this was a terrible idea, but it was me and Ben, and that somehow seemed like a good idea. At about 4 we stared to hike towards the mountains. Well we made if over first 3 hills and didn't see the center, and then it got dark at like 6:30. At this point we couldn't seen any; buildings, roads, well we saw a tower a few miles away on the top of a hill but were kinda just wondering around in the bush. Needless to say we eventually got back at like 8 after lots of hiking and the idea of poping the tent Ben had bought (don't worry I just picked up a sleeping back and we had a liter to start for). I don't think ill try doing that again, but if i did i would not take the same path of kudu (deer) trails that we took and im pretty sure neither of us regretted it when we were finally back.