SANIBONANI!!

That means "hi" in Zulu just so that you know what I'm saying.  I'm sorry this is the first time I've updated, I haven't had internet access for a really long time.  But you wouldn't believe all of the amazing things that I've seen already.  A few days ago we took a tour of the apartheid museum and the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum.  Hector Pieterson was a young 13 year old South African boy who was shot and killed by police during the 1976 Soweto protests here in S.A. when black students were forced by the white government to learn the language of Afrikaans.  Afrikaans was used by the whites to control the blacks under the evil Apartheid system. 

Seeing these 2 exhibits makes me understand once again why the work of social justice and human rights is so important, as sometimes it's hard for people to see when change seems so slow and there are so many problems in the world to work on.  When we toured Soweto (the town where the young students protested) we saw so much life in the city.  Change is possible!!  A city where people could barely walk down the streets for 30 minutes without hearing a gunshot, is now becoming more and more peaceful as the South African government has acknowledged what Apartheid did to so many people of the country.  We toured Nelson Mandella's old home which is in Soweto, and saw where Desmond Tutu lives as well.  However there is still much work left to be done here; South Africa is still rampant with crime and poverty, despite how developed the country is as a whole.