Hi Helen,
I really enjoyed reading about your African adventures. They sound wonderful.
Although I was born in SA and lived there for 27 years, I mainly experienced the narrow-minded western lifestyle very much based on fear and colour-mindedness within the city and suburbia confines.
It took going to a multiracial university for me to have my eyes opened and to start appreciating the diversity of the land of my birth. And to leave, to really appreciate where I had lived.
Your RC name is Rainbow... did you know that SA is known as the Rainbow Nation? Because of all the different tribes, colours and creeds all coming together to form a new nation.
There is lots wrong with SA, but I have never experienced the spirt of reconcilliation anywhere else in the world to the extent which I experienced it since 1994 when the new government came into being.
I too can go one for pages and pages about SA!
I have only ever seen SA, Namibia (never got to Vic Falls) and Swaziland, but one day I would love to return to travel through the rest of Africa.
Since being away, the call of my african roots call stronger and stronger... one day.
Today, in one month exactly, I will be returning to visit my friends and family. It is all I think about lately! Amongst other things, we'll be going into the Kruger National Park to see the big five. Ahhhh...
Blessings fellow traveller
Natalie
