AMAZING SOUTH AFRICA.... HOWEVER!

South Africa is said to be one of the greatest countries. There is so much to see and marvel about. Unfortunately, I have only been to Pretoria (the capital city), Johannesburg (the commercial city
Mandela square which is a must see for all who visit SA fortunately lies in a small city between Joburg and Pretoria called Sandton.

The shopping malls, transportation systems, mines, drive-thru restaurants, parks plus the orderliness are extra-ordinary.
It’s too ordered that cars actually stop at the STOP SIGN. People make lines to get into the taxis…first come, first serve. AMAZING!

Uganda teaches us none of these; In fact, the Country Motto should change to ‘Everyone for his own God for us all’. There is so much of hassling in the Pearl of Africa.

During my first week I adventured round with an acquaintance that happened to come from Uganda. She was a business lady so she had been in SA a number of times… anyways; it was all too abnormal at times that we found ourselves wanting to go ahead of the line.
I accidentally went ahead of some gentleman in one of the shops… but the man told me in a polite voice that He had come before me…. My…my…my! It’s been long since I experienced such order.

The public transportation system is absolutely remarkable. And I’m comparing this with Uganda and Kenya. The South African Matatus have no taxi conductors…. One gets into a taxi, then money is collected from the back to the front. I mean you send your money forward and amazingly expect that your change will be passed-back to you by the passengers.
The people use words like four… in other words, four people have paid from the back seat, then three… or two. In that case if you happened to be the co-driver… it is your responsibility to see that everyone has paid the right amount then hand the money over to the driver.

In other words, if your mathematics scores are below average don’t bother sitting in the front. Ha-ha

How then can this country have a high Crime rate with so much order in its system?

Then again i ask, is South Africa ready to host the world cup?????
Through my obseravations.... PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT IT'S OK TO SMILE AND GREET PEOPLE DESPITE OF THEIR ORIGIN.

Hans Hoffmann says it best; "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

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“IF YOU MARRY ME, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU…”

Being in South Africa for more than 20 days, I recognize and conclude that hissing to ladies - is a Men habit. Yesterday, as I crossed the road a man stretched his hand towards me and spoke in one of the native languages… he must have been saying Hello, BUT… what an awkward way to greet. He should thank the Lord I’m a adventurer or else the Ugandan in me would have been brought out at that point. :-)

As I walked this morning towards Park Meadows - a huge shopping mall in Bruma… a man’ run towards me speaking in tongues…I said the same thing I have said again and again… I don’t speak that language”. He walked off and I had my peace.

I can tell you thousands of such incidents that have taken place since I came but today evening as I walked towards the garage (Petrol station) to buy some credit, a man came towards me and spoke in South African English, (which by the ways is so difficult to understand) I will quote his words… “If you marry me, I will never leave you”.
Ha-ha! Geez… I was so puzzled to give an answer...my mouth and eyes said it all.

Can I conclude that it’s not just a Ugandan thing for men to propose out of the blue… could this be a world-wide thing?

An Awesome Adventure.

Hello World!
Hope you are doing well.
Reading through what I wrote last night I once again I am amazed at how great and wonderful our God is!

Ha!!!

Well people it has now been 20 days in SA, can you believe that… I have been stunned and overwhelmed by the beauty and organization...feel like I need to reflect on the journey thus far. It really has been an awesome ordained adventure!!!

I have loved almost every minute of it! And have well and truly felt the stretch on all levels!!!! Well it’s been a blast… my first moments were of great excitement with Sun City on my third-day.

Anyway you may find this amusing. From a fantastic Sunday in Sun City with two 2 Ugandan acquaintances, we were stopped by the South African police… this was funny because the guy who was driving has lived in SA for 10 years, yet we were driving at the wrong side of the road… How it happened… Geez, I’ve got no idea but as you all can imagine two police cars were on our trail… Imagine this scenario, it’s 9:00pm with two police cars in front and behind your car…

I laughed out loud… not because of my ignorance but due to the fact that I had never experienced this in my life. It was a real life movie.

To make matters worse, the driver was a typical Ugandan who lived in South Africa… LOL… because HE….ohhh… yes…. He moved out of his car to go talk to the policewoman… My oh My. “ONLY IN UGANDA”.
The Ugandan in him is taken everywhere he goes… How is that possible?

Anyway after a few minutes we were let off the hook… my guess was because he was a Priest, the policewoman thought he was all innocent. Haaaa… I knew better…Thank God it was a Sunday.

All in all it was a FABULOUS highway road experience! Life has a fun side once in a while.
I look forward to getting back to Joburg tomorrow.

Okay, I think I need to stop now

Katherine xoxoxoxo

God Bless Africa

Hey people,
It's been a wee while but if you follow my where abouts on facebook u must by now know i'm in South Africa. It's a blessed and amazing country and hopefully i will write more about my adventures soon.
Spending years without visiting an Anglican church. I was pretty amazed when I attended Easter service in St Wilfrid’s Church in Hatfield, Pretoria “ http://www.stwilfrids.org.za/” I specifically loved the song they sing at the end of each service.

God Bless Africa

God bless Africa,
God bless Africa,
Guard our children...
Guide our leaders...
God bless Africa,
God bless Africa,
God bless Africa and bring her peace…

We should all pick a leaf... AFRICA ROCKS!!!!

Thank you St Wilfrid. The service was a blast.