Still Alive!

Hey everybody,
Sorry for not posting yesterday but I was exhausted. i actually wanted to but it was too late because we can't go out into the city alone after nightfall. Anyway, I'm doing great although I have a rotten cold that refuses to go away. Yesterday we were supposed to visit Robbin Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned but that got canceled do to inclement weather conditions. For those of you who think it is sunny and warm here all the time are terribly mistaken. Actually, the weather has been very much like Seattle but without the rain, just cool and at times very windy. People, especially the locals, think I'm insane for wearing shorts but hey, I'm in Africa, I'm not going to wear jeans the entire time. Instead of the island we went to a place called District Six. In the 1960's during apartheid D6 was actually a flourishing place. it was a tight knit community with extreme ethnic diversity. This troubled the whites for two reasons: first, D^ was a pretty nice area in the heart of Cape Town that they wanted for themselves. Second, because it was living proof that people of different skin colors could indeed live together peacefully. So, D6 became one of 42 towns and areas that was completely liquidated. The whites called it a black spot, which meant it was an area inhabited by blacks and colourds that should have been inhabited by whites. Everyone in D6 was forced to leave their homes and move to other areas, almost always slums. D6 was then razed to the ground. it was then left in a state of ruin. The white people never developed it. Today people are just now moving back. They are required to provide proof that they lived there which is difficult when everything you have has been mowed over by a bull-dozer. Anyway, the visit was pretty powerful. Later that evening Kali, Kaitlin, and myself were in charge of cooking dinner for our entire group (25 people) and i am telling you, mom would have been proud. We cooked up a mean stir fry of green, red, and yellow peppers along with onions, garlic, broccoli and carrots all served over brown rice. Yeah, it was bombalicious. Well, i was going to tell you what we did today but I think i will post this blog and then write a new one to make it seem like I didn't miss a day. yeah. Bye.