Saturday, March 10, 2007

Saturday,March10 atsea. Rocking and rolling one hand for th e shipthe waves are not very big but the rollers are huge. The Captain just announced the elevators are shut down and the outsihde deckens are closed. It is a day of no classes so all the students are sleeping in to catch up from river rafting, bungee jumping and wine tasting, none of which I did. Theglasses in the bar arte jingling like wind chimes. Stillin the commercial harbor of Capetown waiting for refueling. This huge basin ceould hold fifty freighters but is quite empty. Not much commercial shipping. Trip to Cape Nature Preserve a small plot of about 10 acres being reclaimed from the acacia trees. Local women are employed rushto clear the bldrerush and plant seedling of native species. It is a small starrrt toward microemployment. School chil dren are brought in study reclaiming the land around thr factories. Further down the peninsula the Cape Flats are bulldozed to provide more area f or the 1000 people a dayt arriving from the farms. Four privveys back to back are erected a from nd connected with electricity. From overhead wires. Then the squatters erect their tin sheds around. 10 to a group with no space between. On and on for several miles They become etabllished villages providing whatever they need for each eryother. Transprt is by jitney busses the look they would breakdown from the load . PreprimaysEducationis as far a.s it goes

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