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Last week was really exhausting

On Sunday I was with one of our babies in the emergency department at Children's Hospital "Red Cross", near the the center of Cape Town, was. It is HIV positive and had over 40 ° C grade fever but the diagnosis was only: "Chest Infection ... will be over in at least 3 days ". I got some ointment and was allowed to go home again. On Wednesday, she felt still not better and they had to go back to the hospital. there it turned out then that the diagnosis of Sunday was wrong and the 13-month-old girl has meningitis and probably die soon will.
Then I should have a terminally ill man who has me almost died in a car, go to our Respite Care Center. Respite Care Center is a part of Baphumelele for adult AIDS ill patients in order to receive food there, because otherwise the violent attack AIDS and tuberculosis drugs to organs. Here, too often over the hearse. But when we were already on the way to Khayelitsha, , the staff member of the Respite Care Centre then decided to take him to yet another hospital - where he died later.

On Wednesday there was an uprising in Khayelitsha, because the people in the shacks (shanties) have been demanding for many years, solid homes. After the end of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) promised the people the situation of blacks to improve significantly, by as permanent houses are built of stone. The ANC is the leading political party of the black population in South Africa since 1994 and is the president: Mandela and Mbeki. But since many people still live in almost the same position at the time, increasing the resentment of the Shack-dwellers.
am in exactly such a riot I got a Mitfreiwilligen than we did on Wednesday evening, a food donation pick up in the north of Cape Town. An angry crowd of people stood to the right and left of the road and threw garbage and big stones in the center and set fire to fire. While we fought by us on our rickety Fiat Uno with a trailer by the chaos even as so often went from the engine ... but luckily again. On the way back were two major streets of the township closed and we had trouble finding back to Baphumelele. To Fortunately, we will soon get a tow hitch in our Toyota Tazz, because this car is at least not at every intersection.
On Thursday we had another "Emergency" and I went with a new baby to the Red Cross. The one-month old boy was so sick and cool that it's almost dead, but thanks to artificial ventilation and infusion, he has yet made it. I'm still a long stay with the boy until the ICU (Intensive Care Unit - ICU) has been rescheduled.

And so was my whole week!

But then luckily the weekend:

here to Baphumelele meets twice per week, a very well known and good doctor and checked out by all the children - is voluntary. Since it is currently in Ireland and her children were away at the weekend and so no one could take care of their dogs, we were allowed to stay from Friday to Sunday at her home. Well, the term "house" is an understatement very: It was a really big villa with super many rooms, pool, pool table, tennis court, large garden with private gardener, plasma TV and a complex security system with lasers and all the trimmings.
We have let ourselves go really well since and it has done so well sometimes a little more room to have and enjoy luxury to be allowed (hot tub, etc.).

South Africa is a country where rich and poor peacefully side by side ... live with emphasis on side by side, for there is hardly any contact between rich and poor, with a few exceptions such as our doctor, who comes from one of the largest and richest families in South Africa and two days of the week comes to us in the shantytown of Khayelitsha to help orphans! Sorry this is the exception.

news you get here do not cooperate, let alone international. Also on the current situation of withdrawal Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, a possible successor to get here with little. Sometimes it grabs the headlines on the radio, but nobody here can explain to a policy I do not understand politics! "is heard everywhere ... Abr it remains exciting in the township.

Although I would just need more such weekends to me some time to recover properly, for the new week .... with many more experiences and events
... you'll hear about it!

Freddie

PS: At least, it really warm by now! ;-)

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(my first month in South Africa)


roar the moment even the early spring storms across the country and through the streets. Often it rains ... left - because in the summer months not a drop will fall more. But when it is dry, sand is everywhere in the air, you have him in the eyes, in the apartment and even in the phone. When the sun shines, it is very warm and you would like a cool breeze.
Last weekend we took a trip towards the Cape of Good Hope, made, past Muizenberg, one of the most famous Surfer-town South Africa - but totally boring if it is not about wave surfing - then on to Fish Hoek and Simon's Town. The scenery was breathtaking: sparse, but full of palm trees, colorful flowers and exotic plants ... between monkeys and in the sea - so close beside the little holey road - just teeming several huge whales. This is Africa!

But above all, the township life is Africa.
All the fruit vendors, street children and mothers, their Children have tied with a cloth on the back, run a large sack of rice on their heads through the streets. People to repair their cars on the road, mom in front of the blazing fires, roasting whole sheep heads, car washer at the roadside and loud music of any corrugated iron hut. The air smells of gasoline and plastic, in between fried meat.
also drowns in Cape Town smog. But when the wind blows away the dirt with rain, is a crystal clear view of Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope, accompanied by rainbows.

Life here in the orphanage Baphumelele is increasingly common, and yet never the same. Always is unusual or unexpected, but you get used to over time. So I have this Sunday in the hospital with a 1-year-old girl (HIV positive) spent about 40 ° C fever.
Everyone has become so found their tasks and the coexistence turns out to be very easy. I am here as responsible for any repairs incurred Sun But I'm going for the connected "Respite Care Centre for HIV-positive adults with TB, a morning spent a week in the Grade R", the preschool class with children of Baphumelele and go to the hospital. The work is varied and entertaining, although you always have a certain amount of sleep deficit, since often the day starts at half past six in the morning and usually ends at midnight.

Our Volunteers-WG in the "German Flat" is a lively bunch of different people: four boys and four girls from Germany and an American woman (thanks to which we speak much English). Except for minor - perfectly normal - friction, we have a really fun life. Boredom is a foreign word, nor solitude. And it feels a bit like home when turns into the Dabula Street and the pale red walls of the entrance gate Baphumelele runs.

All Life here is taking place within the walls. Outside, it is dangerous. Care has to be here very much and constantly on guard, his Baphumelele when you leave, but you would be so open and the new and to go to the people. Is the rash can have fatal consequences, but if you pay attention you can connect with the wonderful people in contact. Many can not believe that we as white lives here in Khayelitsha (Site B, Z-Section), and are interested in what you do with Sun As a white one is always at the center, because no one else here knows. Whether in a shopping center on the market or in the hospital ... everyone looks at you. But I try to enjoy - in Germany I will probably not as much attention in part.

I myself feel very comfortable here and very rarely miss home. The toast (is not there something else here) is one to the neck out, just like the cheddar cheese and black tea. are normal jam, delicious chocolate and good meat or sausage is not here.
But this is the good and the chips Boereworst (Boer Sausage) delicious!


extent for this time,

Greetings from the end of the world, your

Freddie