In Johannesburg

So after a 10 hour flight hoping that Ashley will be following me the next day, I flew over the moon-lit Meditteranean into the very dark African continent, after the fires of Maroco there was no light, period. Jo'Burg is great and seems like just another city with all its problems of traffic congestion, crime, new housing - gated communities for rich, next to shacks for the low income, a mile down the road, like the dewage couldn't make it there. The South Africans that I've spoke to seem to think of thier coutnry as different from the resat of Africa. But then thining again they agree that corruption is an issue they thought wasn't so bad that urban development issues could have been dealth with differently. They ask mw where I am from and I have to say Czech, studying in the States. So today it happened like 10 times when I was introduced to people, I started to be split personality or something.
So I'll be working ina village setting at Refilwe, community org. which contracts with Right to Care. They have a compound at a pretty lush site, about 3sq. miles. about 20 miles N of JoBurg, including a clinic, day care center, housing for volunteers, housing for god-parents and their children, community hall, kitchen, orchard, small river, goats, cows, pigs, rabbits and chicken, micro credit type program. So it's like an all in one nicely packaged, and we'll see if it works. There won't be a good internet connection there so after Saturday, I'll do my best. Stay tuned.