Oh
Johannesburg!
It’s
amazing to me how fast time has flown by, it seems like just yesterday we were
all trying to find each other at the airport and making sure we all got on the
plane while trying to do our connect from Jo’burg to Cape Town. It’s funny
because being in the airport while trying to get to Johannesburg brought back
so many fun memories of our first time in Cape Town but it also brought some
sorrow knowing that we only have 3 weekends in South Africa, that soon we will
be traveling to the airport again. But this time not enrich ourselves in the
history of South African or to see Lions or Cheetahs, but to fly back to NYC.
Johannesburg
is great though I can say I’m a Capetonian myself. Jo’burg is more a city life,
personally I see more disparity in Jo’burg than I see in Cape town. There’s one
bridge which we have crossed several times now, and it’s shocking to me to see
how a bridge can create such a division within a city. On my Left hand, you see
buildings and nice cars, people walking, lots of commerce but when I look
towards my right, there’s open roads, beat down cars, old abandoned buildings,
piles and piles or garbage and people looking through it and gathering together
and creating a fire. As we drive I take everything in and I think on how it
would be amazing it I could just be able to take my glasses off and show
someone exactly what I got to see being here in South Africa but honestly
people wont be able to understand and even if I do a really good job at explaining
myself, its not sufficient people wont really understand.
All week we
have been attending different museums and just learning about the different
events that took place in South Africa and how different life was back then.
And till this day and perhaps I will never understand how people, a group of
people can be classified as 3rd class citizens. This week has been very
powerful. We have taken in so much information each explaining the events
differently. I think my favorite tour of this week will have to be the
Sharpeville Museum.
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| Jen with co-educators in Johannesburg |
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