Shake Sugaree

Langa and Aquarium pics up.


Baby, our chicken?



Site of N1 Riot.


This is a home. This is millions and millions and millions of people's homes here.

• With the help of our host mom Avril, Ariel has been crocheting and Kat and I have been knitting up a storm. Get ready for scarves. Lumpy, uneven, one-of-a-kind scarves.
  
• whitney made squash pie for canadian thanksgiving on monday (no pumpkin available). it was delicious, in it's own special way. much like our scarves.
• we have a really cool music teacher named Les. He's one of those artsy, age-less types with long, jointy fingers and clear, piercing eyes. He's taught us about traditional "Ghoema" music and even let us play on his drums and what nots. Apparently he's going to help us organize a concert featuring... us (oh dear). We're going to Ghoema-ize some American songs. Suggestions? For more info go to coffeebeans.co.za. Look for Les Javan.

Yesterday we visited the Amy Biehl Foundation and took a tour of the program sites. It was a great trip and we're hoping to volunteer after official classes end in November. The foundation has set up afterschool programs in the Gugulthu township, where Amy was killed. We got to see kids playing marimbas and singing and dancing and it was really amazing. Some of the girls were doing local Pantsula dance which was absolutely unbelievable. It's amazing how in touch people can be with their bodies and I think we were all pretty jealous.