Saturday

We only held the after-school classes today, it being Saturday. School was strange today because the students were in their own clothes and all of them were more fresh than usual. We fed them our leftovers from last night after our classes and there was a bit of madness while some students were finished and others hadn't yet eaten. This afternoon was a much-needed break.

We drove to New Brighton where to go to the Red Location Museum. It was the first apartheid museum and it was definitely an impressive structure. There were different rooms, called memory boxes, made from the corrugated tin that the shacks these people were relocated to. Each held items that helped to describe the living conditions or struggle to end apartheid. The horrifying thing was that this impressive, multi-million dollar building was built in the middle of a very very very poor area. They had a few examples of Red Location shacks but they actually look better than those that border the museum property.

This is a former Red Location shack:


These are houses from the bordering neighborhood:






Tonight we went to the boardwalk and had dinner at a seafood restaurant. It was strange to suddenly be in such a white area. It reminded me of riding the 4 5 or 6 after being so used to the G, L or F!

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