After spending another day at lugelethu on friday, i filled up my tank
on saturday for a trip to east london to spend some time with miriam.
Because i bought my car with no code for the radio i had to pass by
the merc dealer in king williams town. Unfortunately it was closed
already, so i need to go there some other day again. Then alex,
another volunteer called and invited me to come over to Cintsa, a
place ct the beach close to east london. With some time left i went
there and met now alex and jan in person. Very nice guys! As they then
had booked a boat tour i went back to east london to meet with miriam.
I was wondering why my tank was only 3/4 full after this distance and
figured out the woman ct the petrol station did not close it properly.
It made me very angry as i figured out i lost about 15 liters of
petrol on these bumpy roads... Now i control the closed tank! :)
After spending a nice time with miriam with some time at the beach, i
drove to cintsa again, to spend some time with alex and jan. This
place they were staying at was a quite international backpackers
place. So i met people from france, spain, england and from germany.
This was actually very interesting as the 3 germans were doing an
internship at mercedes.benz here in east london. They studied
mechanical engineering in germany; the same studies i also want to
take and we chatted about the hard, but very interesting studies...
Now i'm even more excited to study :)
Then on monday i did a very long trip to Sterkspruit close to the
lesotho border with my boss and an old anc freedom fighter to a
school. It was very interesting to get an insight in the south african
freedom struggle as he showed me on our way the places where they were
hiding and spoke about the political importance of this region. I
actually did not know that the germans did not invent the
concentration camps. It was an invention by the british to kill black
women and children in the early 20th century. Unfortunately we did not
have time to stop somewhere really, so next time i go this way i want
to stop at memorial places and the little museum to get more
information...
The drive inside the land of south africa is very nice! Good roads and
an undescribeable landscape! Its a very rocky area with alot of
mountains, but also plateaus. You can sometimes look for hundrets of
kilometers into the land and just enjoy the nature. In some places
there is nothing, in others there the little african huts and rondells
where people live in. And its very cool, in both ways. Its very windy
and quite cold.
So i also had a chat with my boss about my future here. As he is going
to germany this sunday to have some meetings with ijgd, and he needs
to report something i got the final promise to take over the project
of alex in july in somerset east. I hope this promise will stay as
plans and appointments here change very quick. Because there will be a
quite long gap now until july he proposed me several options to do in
this time. On of this option was also this school in sterkspruit. I
think i.ll take this opportunity, even its very very rural, very far
away from anything, as the school is actually outside of sterkspruit,
and it will be very different circumstances to live under. But it will
also be a challenge and a great opportunity as i will get an insight
into the community over there and its close to lesotho. I'll see what
happens and where it will take me:)
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