So I finally got around to getting some photos uploaded and organized. These are pictures from our first 4 weeks here in South Africa when I was actually blogging regularly: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7sjcQPcHAlsVGJaQ3Y3STdVR0k&usp=sharing (Apologies for the lack of captions...it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to do this in Google Drive and David just went to bed...)
Blogging has fallen to the wayside in part due to other things...my parents were here to visit for a week, followed by a road trip up to Victoria Falls. David and I both are involved in a number of service projects here that we want to make sure we finish as best we can before we leave. And it's easy to blog about the ignorant foreigner-in-a-new-culture stories and laugh at ourselves, but much harder to put words to the things we are learning, wrestling with, and the social injustices we see. One manifestation of this is that I have been trying to estimate what a living wage would be for someone living in Sweetwaters. From what I can tell, no (white) people from Hilton who employ (black) domestic workers from Sweetwaters have any idea what a living wage would be to pay their employees. And I wonder what a fair, living wage would be for the lady who works for us once each week. So I have been on a mission to find out and share the results. Anyways...things like this have taken the place of blogging. Hence the silence. But we are still here, thankful beyond words for this opportunity, and trying to make the most of it!
And my sister-in-law, Steph, is a real, legit, could-be-published writer...you should check out her three blog posts on our trip to Victoria Falls: http://bridginghope.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/flamingos-the-president-and-ak47s-botswana-and-joburg/
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