March 11. 2007…Braii with the Worship Team

Rach, Gabe, and I joined the worship team for a little braii at a local pool/park. It was great going down the water slide until the electricity went out and it no longer was working…Gabe and I were so bummed. We were convinced that a breaker just tripped and the lifeguard couldn’t figure out how to switch it back on…so we resorted to trying to teach the children how to swim. Then Godfrey came up with this game of tag…when he was describing it to me I was like ya I know that game it is called tag…he was like oh really you play it on the otherside. Here he had thought just African’s played tag in the pool and I totally ruined it for him by terming it tag and knowing exactly what he was talking about.

I am also starting to learn what a HUGE deal it is for whites and blacks to hang out. In the States this is a common occurrence something we take for granted that we have friends of different skin colors and hang out without even thinking twice about it. The only reason you would see blacks with whites in public here was if the black person was carrying stuff for the white person and you would see them walking behind the white person. So to go shopping, driving, swimming, have a braii, or attend a black church is still very rare here. Interracial dating is a foreign concept and is even nervously laughed about when brought up in conversation. I feel as though I am living in the past. Yet making huge strides for the future of South Africa by being able to show the whites and blacks here that the skin tone may be different but we all have the same dreams, fears, worries, desires, etc in life.