(copied from an older blog, to consolidate my Blogger accounts)
11 SEPT. 2009
Well.... Internet is not as available here as in Asia. And it's either slow or expensive, so you'll have to wait for my pictures. I've got so much to tell, but not enough time! My blog entries may be few and far between....
Nous avons visite Soweto, un rassemblement de 49 townships a Johannesbourg. Tres interessant, beaucoup de marche, beaucoup appris. Des histoires tres touchantes. Je comprends mieux le ressentiment des noirs envers les blancs. On dirait maintenant que l'appartheid est inverse, d'une certaine facon. J'expliquerai quand j'aurai plus de temps.
We left Jo'burg this morning, took a very nice and comfy bus to Nelspruit, in the North. We're staying in a nice lodge outside the city, surrounded by trees of all sorts.
And now, my time at the computer is running out, it's very expensive.
Keep those comments coming, and those emails, I like to hear from you!
Nous avons visite Soweto, un rassemblement de 49 townships a Johannesbourg. Tres interessant, beaucoup de marche, beaucoup appris. Des histoires tres touchantes. Je comprends mieux le ressentiment des noirs envers les blancs. On dirait maintenant que l'appartheid est inverse, d'une certaine facon. J'expliquerai quand j'aurai plus de temps.
We left Jo'burg this morning, took a very nice and comfy bus to Nelspruit, in the North. We're staying in a nice lodge outside the city, surrounded by trees of all sorts.
And now, my time at the computer is running out, it's very expensive.
Keep those comments coming, and those emails, I like to hear from you!
And isn't it odd, too, as a white North American, to find oneself a very visible racial minority? Though I noticed that more in Japan waaay back in the day than in Africa, actually. Heck, I was more conscious of it in some neighbourhoods of *Chicago* than in most of my African trip. Much as I'd like to think race doesn't matter & I do forget about it 99% of the time, for me I found it suddenly strange to be prodded out of my colour-blind trance for a moment. No great revelations of it meaning anything, good or bad, just a different sense of awareness of self in different surroundings.
Profitez-en à fond :)