I made it all the way from Nairobi to Johannesburg to Durban all by myself without getting lost or catching the terminating plane!!haha jks :) nah i made a new friend on the airport and followed her around the Joburg airport so I can't really take any credit for that...
Anyway, south africa is very different from Kenya. It's a bit isolating staying in a big house with so much security...huge fences and stuff. But apparently there are 100 murders and 30 rapes a day in south africa. So I guess security like this is very much needed.
Yesterday Clunken took us to the beach at Durban, just for a walk, it's very pretty. And hot here too! It's winter now, I can't imagine how hot it gets in summer.
Today I visited an orphanage called Makaputu Children's Village in a place called Valley of a Thousand Hills. It's so pretty the area!! But at the same time it's such a desparate situation there; more than 2 out of every 3 people are infected with HIV/AIDS. People are dying every day from AIDS and there are thousands of child-headed households. The guy who was giving us a tour of the orphanage pointed to a hill and said "See this big mounds of dirt piled up? That's a mass grave. About 4000 unidentified bodies have been buried there; they've died of AIDS." It was a reality shock.
The children's village is reaching out to the community in very effective ways and is making a great impact. It was so good to see what they were doing. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the kids because they were all in school (they go to local schools). But it was awesome to have a tour of the place and hear what they are doing.
Tomorrow there is a national strike across the country so we'll be staying at the house. On Thursday I go to another orphanage called God's Golden Acre. That's the one I read a book about so I'm very excited.
Apart from that there's nothing much else to write so I'll go and not waste internet time :)
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