Cape Town Holiday

20th October
  
The past few days we spent travelling to Cape Town,  South Africa. To be honest I was willing to travel anywhere in Africa. I need a break! I remembered how lovely Cape   Town was last August and so I wanted to come back. We caught the bus in Harare and the journey took just under two days.
  
 I love Zimbabwe and doing the work we do there, so much. However, being here in Cape Town, I am so grateful to God for luxuries, things that work and to just escape for a week! We arrived at 5.30am on 20th and booked into a wonderful hotel – wow, it is nice! I am still getting the hang of using SA rand instead of the US $. In shops they give REAL change and not sweets or lollypops as they do in Zimbabwe! Electricity is on all the time, the traffic lights all work properly and roads are maintained!
  
 I have been so excited to come here with Meredith and have been dancing around the house and bus over the past few days in excitement!
  
 
  
21st October
  
Today has been lovely! I really needed a haircut and shave so I found a lovely little barbers shop down by the waterfront, ‘Ye Olde English Barber Shoppe’, so I just had to go! I had a fantastic mop chop and a hot shave, which felt so good! The past few months has been about orphans, orphans and orphans, which is brilliant and I’m so glad I can help them, but today I have to admit that felt good to be about me! I hope this is OK! I just feel tired right now after a non stop few months where I haven’t been able to look after myself properly physically, so just to have someone make a fuss over me was great!!
  
 I am missing Zimbabwe already. Johannesburg is nice, but the people are so obviously miserable. The people that served us hardly spoke to us. OK, in Zimbabwe they don’t have the correct change to give me, but at least they smile, joke and are happy! In Jo’burg I got asked nine times in two hours for money, in Zimbabwe I get looked at for being white. I am thanking God that Cape Town is such a wonderful, happy and gorgeous place.
  
 We walked along the harbour this afternoon and it was just magnificent. There were whales swimming by into the sea, the sun setting behind Table Mountain and music in the distance by the marimba bands.
  
 As a charity, we are looking for someone to fulfil my role. The plan was to find someone to train and grow into the project before I leave next year. Over the past few weeks I have had to accept a few things about Shona culture that I did not understand before. This has made my job particularly challenging. I have not come to change the culture but to work with it to the best of my ability without offending anyone.