The sun shines again!!!!
Trip Start
Jun 29, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 31, 2008
Cape Town,
South Africa
Monday, July 21, 2008
After a enduring work week being busy with fundraisings and translation stuff it is eventually time to breathe a little but and get a tan!! so on Staurday I went to the biggest township of South Africa, Khayelitsha for a celebration organised by the high school students of the area. Some of the interns who work there do also live in the same building as mine. So, we went there by car (I assure you it is safer than walking!!) but did not walk into the township. Being white and alone, moreover carrying a camera would be complete suicide! so, the few pictures you will see from the township were actually taken from the car. The celebration was very wel-organized and there was a lot to see, hear, taste etc etc: singing, dancing, poetry, slam, hip hop, theater plays etc etc and I have to tell I was really amazed by the talent of some of those kids! Some have marvellous voices, others give you stomach pains because you laugh s much and there were pictures to buy for almost nothing
In The Library 'Festival Through their eyes"
. I bought 2 of them and decided to give a bit more than the ridiculous R10 for them! this aims to support the local cultural and artistic life of the area. For that noble purpose I do not mind giving a lot away! Sunday was church day again and I brought a Zimbabwean friend of mine. As expected he enjoyed really much the service. Actually since I am here I know more from Zimbabwe and its Shona language than from South Africa, héhéhé! So, actually in Zimbabwe you should pay 50 million dollars for bread, the inflation rate is incredibly high I even saw a bank note of 10 millions Zim Dollars!! But on the other hand, it is a very safe country where you can walk the whole night without fearing anything! So after a pause at the Lava-Lounge, where a friend of mine works we visited a huge market near the future stadium that will welcome the 2010 Soccer World Cup and which desperately remains in a complete mess. Many people here fear that it will never be ready for 2010! I was also in the suburb area of Woodtsock where the real people of the real South Africa live: still, you will not find as much wealth in the most luxurious neighborhoods of Cape Town as there is those small, over-crowded houses...Well, it always depends what is YOUR own definition of wealth and poevrty but since I am here, my definition of those concepts completely changed!
