DAY 30

Today was another perfectly lazy day, I got up close to lunch and had homemade fries with egg tasting just awesome. After that I went on a trip with Johanna’s sister’s (Naomi) husband (Gus) his Jamaican friend Barry to visit another friend Peter with a hard drive stuffed with movies. Yeah in SA file sharing is still very old school because of the lack of good bandwidth (you pay 30€ for a 1gb bundle accessed via 3G!!!) so people bring their hard drives almost every time they visit a friend and exchange stuff. I like this culture because it brings people together^^
Peter is a fisherman and so we paid a visit to the local fish farm while the files were being copied. Man, Peter’s spot is really damn nice even so it was a rainy day. Fortunately we brought some tea keeping us relaxed and warm while enjoying the beautiful nature.
Back home it was my turn to copy movies and share my stuff so I sat down two hard drives attached at the same time copying like a mad devil and really copying under Vista takes hours. The bitch installing Vista on a 1gb RAM machine gotta be shot anyway!!!
While I was busy doing that some people from the party yesterday came around to see Naomi’s new baby Kajua (pronounced Kudzwa) which was a 3.98kg nuke when he dropped out of that small woman.
This evening we had another braai but this time adults and babies only with a traditional separation meaning woman and kids inside and the men outside. I AM A MAN!!! At least that’s my interpretation of being outside^^ Actually in Xhosa culture you’re not a man until you went into the bush. This means going into a forest, getting circumcised, eating your raw foreskin and living there alone for 3 to 5 month with other boys becoming men. But actually this cultural thing became kind of a business, and so people having no clue on how to teach values and much worse having no clue how to circumcise properly become the mentors of the boys just for the money. So at the braai people made loads of jokes about it saying ‘Christian you know, you’ve gotta go into the bush to become a man and the bush is just across the street and actually we could have a bush in this yard.’ ‘Yeah and we could say we’ve got a Jamaican (Barry) who can cut it straight!’ It was damn funny. In addition, Andreas a guy from Germany was around and we talked about his work in SA and Zambia. He tries to build up a care system for disabled people because in loads of parts in Africa disabled people are not included into society at all, are left alone and die and that’s not over-exaggerated. The worst thing is that the government in SA doesn’t support his NGO at all because they think it’s their business even if they do nothing. (e.g. once they went to a school and started building a ramp for wheel chairs for the school and the government took it down again without building a new one) That’s why Andreas and his one colleague are fundraising in Germany for the past 20 years! to help disabled people in Africa. Ain’t that sick?! Their organisation is called ‘Utho Ngathi Disability Project’ and they are looking for African and German volunteers willing to help them so I came up with the idea to help to set up an AIESEC internship (educational or development) to help ‘em with German students. I hope it’ll work out.
A more funny story was told by Johanna’s dad who explained how people scream the first time they fly to Uganda because the flight goes across lake Victoria when it approaches the air port and people can’t see the landing area when suddenly the pilot says ‘Please get into a straight position and fasten your seat belt. We are landing now!’ I’d really love to see whether this is still happening^^
Because there was just meat (which the word braai includes) at the party, Johanna and Christine (a friend of Johanna) left and got me a vegetarian burger from Steers and really it tasted awesome and it really looked like the picture and not like McD where you sometimes get an oily bun with a slice of meat inside called burger. I’m sorry that I’ve sinned but junk food tastes so awesome!!!
The evening was pretty damn nice, funny but also exhausting, I dunno why but when we left at 10pm it felt like 1am and Johanna and her brother approved that.
So back home we had a tea and went straight to bed afterwards.