June/July 2008 - South Africa

We spent last week in Capetown visiting parlament, the cape of good hope, seeing penguins, climbing table mountain and visiting museums. This week we are builing houses with habitat for humanity, our build has students from Capetown, Stelenbosch (another city in SA) Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe and of course Seattle. Our house is a bit behind schedule as it was raining to hard for the ducka (the afrikans word for the cement we use) to set and we had to stop building. wish for good weather for us!

this week has been spent doing some seriously hard work
but we finnaly have four walls and a roof on our house
and more importantly it's still standing *wild cheering*
the place we're building the house is a township called Mfuleni
townships in South Africa are where many of the poor black people live
and many of the people live in houses made of scraps of wood metal and cardboard
the house we are building is made of concrete block and dugga
Today we were doing the finnishing touches and building a roof
I can sucessfuly say i learned some mclkcsa the language spoken by the people in Mfuleni
and know have a whole new understanding of irish boy bands