Hey Guys =)
It is Saturday 17:08 clock now and I am the first time come to the Internet. I had in fact only such a pre-paid card accordingly, and purchase assets and borrow from other nerve volunteer Internet Stick ... Flat rates, there are unfortunately not, so I do not come online very often, since it is simply too expensive.
So now the report from my first 3 days in South Africa:
on time at 15:25 and I flew Rike after a tearful farewell to Hamburg los 6 hours later and reached Dubai. Even in the airport, I just could only marvel Everything sparkled and shone, everything was silver or gold, huge waterfalls inside the airport, and many furious people we eyed up and down critically. When we finally made it outside to reach the airport, we received the Hans (a friend of Riker) and suggested a small city tour of Dubai because we just could not say no.
So we drove about 2 hours so next to the biggest tower in the world, many casinos and hotels along. In conclusion, I can say that Dubai is really beautiful and impressive, but to me all very capitalist and "cold" appeared.
started after 5 hours of stay in Dubai our plane to Johannesburg. There are people came before more friendly and sociable. We quickly paid our excess baggage and then went to the terminal where an aircraft with 29 seats and all the comic Propellers on the sides waiting for us to bring us to Pietermaritzburg.
sat after the first few meters Rike and I only hands haltent there and hoped that somehow we will survive this flight and it was super loud and each air hole was a huge shock. Fortunately for us, then we could fly even a little longer with the plane, because we do not end up in PMB because of the dense clouds could. Due to the volume we could only understand a fraction of the announcement, so we were slightly panicked and 3 women feel responsible to tell us from then on everything and we make clear, as there is no problem because a bus waiting for us in Durban to us to bring them to PMB.
We already noticed how friendly are the South Africans arrived in Durban :-)
unfortunately we had to wait over an hour on our bus because he probably still had a coffee, Welcome in Africa ;-)
After a one-hour bus ride and a delay of 2 ½ hours we arrived at the airport at Pietermaritzburg before but found no one who wanted to pick us up.
A married couple was super helpful and called several friends if they knew how to do it to GGA, so they can take us. Unfortunately, the project is not so common, so we finally went to the police and a nice police officer told the man his way. Since it is very dangerous, but to drive in the dark after GGA, they took a police car in front of us, and we finally reached the site of PGI.
we were receiving only a few volunteers, and to this day I know the boss is not what I'm really sad, as I look at a "Thank You" for the voluntary work had really hoped for.
It already has 11 volunteers are here, and by the end of September it will probably be 26, and I'm really glad that I get along with all great.
I share the moment with only the Rike a room, however, be another 2-3 girls during the month to come. The rooms are super simple: beds, a small Desk and a wardrobe without doors decorate our room ^ ^. We will decorate the course of the year but still something.
went after the first night there by 10 clock to save in order to buy food, etc.. The information that we receive from GGA accommodation and food, namely out of date. We get paid only water and electricity and we can take some of the evening dinner of the children.
Later we were again in a smaller economy, where we wanted to buy our prepaid cards for Internet and mobile phone. The ride was really exciting to go there: We are in a jeep and sat on the bed with some Gogos (these are the South African employees, permanently in the children live) and even some dark skinned women just running around on the street. We fell a few times because of the bumpy road to but in the end it was very funny.
Friday night I finally got to know the first children and then brought the little ones to bed.
Then we played (ie, all volunteers) still somewhat taboo in English and then we went to bed.
Today I had early shift on the playground, so I played 8:30 to 14:00 with some children on the trampoline, which coincide very soon, and other items.
strike the moment the teachers here, so the children get bored pretty well. If they Monday still can not go to school, we must give them homework and learn something with them, I'm curious.
Well now you know what I have already done so everything and want to know determines how could I have not liked.
So on the first night I was suffering under a lot of the culture shock because I did not unreliable and very simple equipment from Germany'm used to.
But now I am here already settled a little and I am sure that we will soon get a job areas that we do every day and in that way in the structure altTag.
The little kids are very open-minded but sometimes really naughty. The young people are against rather closed and I have other than "Hi, how are you and what's your name?" not much you can talk to them.
I am currently still rather nibble on the Zulunamen of the children. I know now maybe 10 names of the 50 children living here sigh.
So much for first impressions here, I will report the next day on.
Oh if you send me anything you want, then preferably by e-mail: sina_zoellner@gmx.de
or in the traditional way by post: Sina publican, God's Golden Acre, PO Box 453, Cato Ridge, 3680 South Africa
Greetings from the far South Africa :-)
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