48 Florence Street Guest House Pretoria
48 Florence Street Pretoria, Gauteng, 2004, South Africa
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South Arfrica!
... to the street. The most expensive homes have living room, dining room, kitchen, one or more bathrooms, two or more bedrooms, and an enclosed garage. These homes have electricity and running water. They are made out of brick and tile. The homes in shantytowns are usually made out of corrugated iron, wood, and/or cardboard and usually have only one room. There is no electricity, and an outside water tap is shared by an entire community. Cooking is done inside on ...
God Works in Mysterious Ways
... leaving briefly for a nail appointment (Don’t judge me lol), there were some grade 12 students using the space to have a meeting for a planned debate, and it was so cool to see the difference work had on the students lives. If the library still looked the way it looked in January, firstly, they wouldn’t even have been allowed in the building, but they definitely wouldn’t have sought it out to use as a meeting and research space. When they were ...
Why I think the world is round, and other musings.
... The N1 is the busiest road in SA, and joins Cape Town to Johannesberg. Yet it's not quite the M1, and for a number of reasons. Firstly, most of it is only one lane, with trucks and cars speeding past each other at alarming speeds with no central reservation to prevent certain immediate death should any driver lose concentration for a moment. Secondly, when bits of it need fixing, they just close one lane, pop up some temporary traffic lights, and let drivers sit for up ...
Roar!
... takes it down to the Police station to be certified; she's gone ages bless her! So mad dash, Nikki goes and does the printing while I get cash and cigs! Meet back up with Rob and we go! Get back and Space cakes helps fully take off the make-shift accelerator pedal to make it easier (and safer!) Pack the car up- extremely nervous! Rob says he'll guide us to the highway as very confusing! But we first need to get petrol! So off we went to fill up plus he gave us an old style jerry can ...
A chat with the South African police
... but for some reason the police car turned on the sirens and lights at me.. Yes, they thought it was red. The policemen looked more like road workers than policemen to me, to be honest... Random T-shirts, but ok, covered with an armored vest which said POLICE... Well, we had a nice chat - I showed them my Estonian ID-card, for example. Of course they wanted to see my passport more than my ID-card, but after I explained that this is just as ...


