(Thursday) I got picked up at 8 today so got a bit of a lie in haha (: & got driven back to Melville. Where of course mum & dad were waiting for me!!!! Was wicked to see them & have some company .... 3 weeks is definately a long time to spend in a place so far from home on your own! Had so much to tell them was brillant (: Is also pretty strange now I have got so used to being here it feels like home & just feels like they've come to visit like they do when I'm at uni :P haha!!
We went to the Apartheid Museum, which was just WOW! Most of it having happened long before my lifetime, I had not quite realised the full extent to all the problems faced here. They really did have a tough time of it, & it illustrate to me yet again how lucky we really are in the UK to not have had to live through such segregation & violence. Mandela really has been an amazing influence to these people, which was illustrated to me on Monday when it was Nelson Mandela Day. Was brilliant & just so eye opening to see. My favourtie quote from Mandela was:
"To be free is not merely to cast off ones chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others"
& then we had yummy dinner :D off to bed now as have to be up early again! Being picked up at 6:45 to go to a breakfast charity dinner and spend the day in Soweto with the NOAH charity! Looking forward to it (:
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