All week we are traveling around Cape Town and getting a feel for the town, university, and service organizations that we will be at for the next 5 months. Yesterday we drove up Signal hill. The new picture in the header of the blog is from signal hill now. Later we went to a more affluent area and got lunch. We saw these street performers.
As you can see, this man is jumping through a flaming hoop. They had some crazy moves.
In addition to three days of classes all of us will be working at various non profits around Cape Town. We visited more service organizations that afternoon. The different organizations that we visited are working in different areas: education, housing for mothers and children, job skills, or HIV epidemic. But despite their different concentrations almost all of the non profits focus on aid that is sustainable. Enabling people to care for themselves rather than merely caring for them.
This morning we visited the Parliament in South Africa. They have a complex, unique, (and confusing to me) system of electing and legislating. In a couple minutes we are throwing a block party for the neighbors. I did my best to make skyline chili. Its not exactly the same but its not bad.
Tomorrow we go to Robben Island. Hopefully it will be great and Ill send something about it soon.
Keep growing closer to your maker and Savior!
Terry
I so glad that you are getting this experience of another part of the globe and so glad you will be lending a hand wherever you can.
Your pictures, especially the one of you, are marvelous
By: Virginia Froehle on July 12, 2009
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