South Africa report # 14

This is not going to be a funny one. There is Aids in Africa. We all know that. But you can not imagine what it is like, my friends. I was invited to attend a memorial event for Aids victims in Police forces. Besides the fact that it started one hour latter than it was suppose to (everything is late in Africa) nothing else was normal to me. They said that almost 40% of population in South Africa are sick with it. 4 out of 10 people have an incurable sickness from which they will die within 1 to 15 years. Every family lost someone to Aids, have someone sick or knows someone who is sick. Government is paying money to make a kind of encouraging ads on national television that state “There is life with AIDS”. On these commercials they show people who say that they are sick but still continued their education and career. Schools are giving condoms out as crazy and have all the sex Ed possible. But they say that in schools that did not give out condoms are just as many cases of Aids and teenage pregnancies as in the schools that did. Wherever you go people do not know what to do with it and how to stop. But South Africa is not as bad, in Uganda couple years ago there was 70% of population infected. Can you imagine what it is like to live in the country were health is a minority.

South African report # 13

Some of you will think that this is a stupid or inappropriate log, but I will still say it. So, if you think Africa you think hot, when you think hot you think shorts when you think shorts you think legs, (Well, maybe you don’t, but bear with me). So I noticed that I am more popular when I wear shorts. At first I was puzzled why that is. Until one day one of the African children started to touch my legs. In a kind of funny way (you now like you pat a cat). Then he calls his friends over and they start touching my legs. I freak out! It turns out that they have never seen anyone with hairy legs. My legs are not super hairy (At least that is what I am trying to convince myself about), but there is no hair on African legs in my village.
No I am scared to wear shorts because who knows what will happen if women in the village will find out that it is possible to touch white men’s legs. What should I do?

South African report # 12

I came back from Cape Town another day. It is quite a city! Right now in South Africa they have a power crisis. There is not enough electricity for everyone (sorry for my oversimplification). Couple moth ago there was black out and City was dark for couple of days. Couple infants died in the hospital and such. No government is busy deciding where to get extra electricity for growing city. But meanwhile they started the program called “cape power alert”. Every 15 minutes on TV and radio report comes on power problem. If the usage of electricity is rising they are asking people to turn unnecessary appliances of. And people do. Letter they say it is say to turn things back and people do. (I wonder if somebody turns the TV of as unnecessary thing how he will know when it is Ok to turn things back on.) Another thing that they do is they encourage people to use gas stoves over electrical once. People bought a lot of them but now turn out that there is no gas in the country and people do not know what to do with their gas stoves. So government has another problem to deal with – more unhappy people.
I experienced two of these black out. I had fun, but I guess there are more responsible people in Africa than I.