Well, after a long and arduous journey, we finally made it to Cape Town! And what a day to come into a beautiful city! The skies were clear and the city was absolutely stunning when we drove in from the north. We got the "post card pictures" of Cape Town with Table Mountain in the background and Table Bay in the foreground. It was an amazing way to see the city and good to finally get to our destination.
After arriving in the northern Cape Town suburbs, which were quite posh, we hoped on smaller mini buses to head off for a township tour of Langa Township and to have lunch in Guguleta Township. The townships are a nice word for the black slums where most of the blacks were displaced to during the apartheid era. The tour was pretty interesting, but I couldn't help but think that I was literally walking through a human zoo. I mean, here we are, very privellaged, walking through a township and staring and learning about the underprivelaged. It was very humbling for sure.
After the township tour, we all went back into town and the group started to split up. In retrospect, I wish I would have taken the cable car up to Table Mountain as it was a beautiful day and it was the last day the cable car was working before shutting down for annual maintenance. I didn't realize that the weather was going to change and pretty much just be crappy for the next couple of weeks.
Oh well! The lessons we learn, but it was okay as the whole next week was spent waiting for Carolyn to arrive anyway! I will definitely be back to Cape Town in the future as it's a great town with a lot to do and a lot to see.
More updates later.
Love, peace, and soul.
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If any of you feel so moved to read about apartheid, take a look at "Miriam's Song." It is a memoir, the family lives in Soweto, a slum like Matty described, and it will shape your view of a black and white world. I read it in graduate school @ Univ. Tenn. The author is Mark Mathabane and he has written several books about apartheid focusing on various members of his family.
- dona
Biggs, I found a course crappier than Green Meadows in Katy!. I played today in Giddings and I didn't even stick around for the back nine. It was that bad. Anyways, we head to PGA next Friday. Oh, guess who I ran into at Alamo. Remember the guy from Castroville who used to work at the John Jacobs golf clinic? Anyways, I ran into him and he is still at Castroville but he said that he and Matt (the dude from Snyder who is now coaching at Southlake Carroll) both work for t.u. now since they no longer have the John Jacobs junior golf camp at A&M anymore. Anyways he remembered me and you.
hope to one day tour Africa so far have only been to Northern Africa and on a school trip.
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