So I picked up my visa/passport at around 9:15 am and flew out at of O'hare at 10:50 am Friday and arrived in Johannesburg at 5:00 pm (11 am Indiana time) Saturday! From there my time here has been jam packed with learning and exploring! The next morning we went to a church in Hillbrow where the energy throughout the service was amazing! (sorry I do not have any pictures from the first few couple of days). If you want to see more pictures, you can check out my South Africa album on Facebook! Feel free to ask questions!
The above picture was taken in an informal settlement called Kliptown in Johannesburg. KYP is an awesome program that provides an education and much more for the kids in these settlements. The program was actually started by the youth!
We drove past Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's house and Desmond Mpilo Tutu's house on the most famous street (name seen above) since both of them grew up on the same road and both have received the Nobel Prize.
There is a lot going on in this picture. To the right you can see a little bit of the largest soccer stadium in all of Africa. In the background you can see a large mound of dirt which is actually one of many mountain-like piles of waste dirt from the gold mines in Johannesburg. The smoke in the picture is from a controlled burn. As winter (dry season) is ends and the rainy season approaches the dead grass is burned. Right now it looks like Indiana during the winter, minus the snow, since everything is very brown due to the lack of rain.
We visited the Hector Pieterson museum Monday and the Apartheid museum on Tuesday. Very moving and heavy.
This is a picture of one of the cameras that takes the picture that you receive in the mail with a ticket! Don't speed!
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