So the first part of our trip living in the comfortable reality-tv style house has come to an end. Soon I will be departing to my township homestay. There I'm staying with a single mother and her two kids, 24 and 15. I'm really excited to get to meet them and get immersed into REAL South African culture. Observatory, where our house is itself fairly westernied, I mean a few days go we got Mexican food. I don't know about you, but when I think of Africa, I don't think about Tacos.
There I will have a chance to work on my Xhosa, which is somewhere between horrible and horrendous. I'm hoping their interpret my desperate attempts to do the clicks correctly as me making an effort, not mocking them!
Smileys
n. A traditional African meal consisting of a boiled sheep's head served whole
These three weeks I'm going to do my best to be adventurous as I live and commute with Africans from Langa township on the outskirts of Cape Town. I will be making the trek into Cape Town each morning to my internship just as Africans were forced to do under Aprtheid migrant labor system.
Just about every part of my journey to the township is going to be a LITTLE outside my confort zone. Yet I need to make sure I make the extra effort to make myself that much more uncomfortable.
Wish me luck as I depart into the unknown and onto this next exciting stage of my adventure
Sobonana!
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