This sure was one of the most memorable days of my entire 2009. so the 16th of december is a public holiday in south africa known as day of reconciliation. neo and myself decided to go to the voortrekker monument in pretoria from johannesburg to check out how they celebrate this occasion. neo wil give u more insight on what this day is al bout. i wil tel you about the journery geting to pretoria.
1st of al we met 2hrs late then planned because i wantd to spend time with my sister,naledi of 7yrs. i had to meet my dad at a central point so he could bring naledi aka mis madam to me. he took 4ever to arrive and eventualy he came through and we left to catch up wid neo. neo was late and mis madam could not stop asking why my friend is late and where he is. i decided to get her a few goodies to keep her quiet and 10min later neo joined us. we made our way to the taxis to pretoria and al was goin wel,except for the time management factor. awhile afta neo and myself caught up,he fel asleep,giving my sista and i 2 do our own catching up. smart as ever mis madam counted from one to twenty in one of the elevn oficial languages.proud as ever i promised her ice cream wen we arrived. oh and she keept telling neo and i how ice cream cools you down...cute!
Eventualy we get to pretoria and my feet problems began. looking stunning im a green dress and a beautiful pair of extreme high heeld shoes,by the time we left pretoria,i wasnt feeling stunning. the taxi dropped us bout a kilo metre or 2 away 4rm the mounent and we began our journey. the start of the walk,iws working that catwalk. naledi and neo seemd to be getting along and so they chatted away. mis madam got tired of walking afta a while and kept teln us how nt fun it is using ur feet and she eventualy opted we ran so we could get to the gate quicker. not realising with this scorching sun nd big sis in heels-she wont be having fun wen she gets blisters the next day. neo couldnt disapoint and instead ran with her leaving me behind with the not so cool ice cream. calves hurt, shoe strapped snapped-totaly not fabulis. we eventualy got there anda thats where our minds started openin- neo wil folow through with wat went down inside the moument and post pibs! mwaa
Thursday, 17 December 2009
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Relating this article with that of Neo's writing about the Voortrekker monument, I have grown to have some antagonism to the afrikaaner nation and can't say they are all swept away, partly cause of our experiences, what we learn from our parents, yet it really gives you another impression when you learn about them; their resilience such as going through the majestical yet brutal Drakensberg mountain, their persistence of their independence, pride in their still prevailing culture,but we should not shy away that there is still a lot of division in our country, for example it would not be typical for a black person to go to the event that you went in, and it wouldn't be if there was Maskandi ( african traditional) music concert, and i guess it is partly our jobs (tourist guides) to show the history of the beautiful cultures we have and how they can always co-exist, they can't always agree but always co-exist, the voortrekker monument shows that they can be arguably said to be africans (a continuous debate). Hope you guys had fun will see you on Jan
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