All I want for christmas is...

To the great people of South Africa

Anywhere you can write on the wall in my kind of place.

Bilder tatt i en kirke i SOWETO, samme sted som utstillingen i forrige post.

Each one, teach one

Bilder tatt i en kirke i SOWETO. Klikk for å forstørre det siste bildet, da skjønner du tittelen.

Noen kule skilt. Sånn fordi det er onsdag (...)

Mye av det her kan vel gå som gatekunst, i hvert fall i min bok. Har mer på lur, må bare få lastet det inn på macen først. So stay tuned/logged on/whatever...

Jeg sier bare at her er det en gate som heter Melk str.

Lol.

Viva la Norge.

Fra nå av skriver jeg på norsk. Med mindre jeg føler veldig for å skrive på engelsk. Da gjør jeg det.

Jeg syns egentlig det er kulere å skrive på engelsk, for jeg har en tendens til å formulere meg bedre da. Også mener jeg at jeg er morsomere. (ja, tenk så klein jeg kommer til å være på NORSK da..)

Men jeg savner gamlelandet, og it's time for a change.

Wow, I'm excited!

Me talast.

It's really cold here... Look at my bracelets!!

Best. Trip. EVER.

I'm slowly starting to edit the film I'm making from my backpacking trip this summer.

The girls sent me some pics for inspiration.

Best trip of my life. Great people, great places, great food, great wine, great books to read on the train even. Everything about this trip was awesome.

I'm not gonna mention that my passport got stolen and that I had to sleep at Amsterdam airport, waiting 19 hours to finally get home, with the most expensive ticket ever.

It's a memory I'll cherish forever, and people I'll never ever forget.

SOWETO 1

On Saturday we went to SOWETO, one of the biggest townships in South Africa.

A township is a place, well... a place where most people live in small shacks or "matchbox" houses. Walls and roof are made out of old metal sheets , the "houses" are packed next to each other without much space in between. They are not waterproof at all, and it must get very cold at night without any isolation.

In South Africa the word township originally meant a segregated town. Under Apartheid the term township came to mean a residential development which confined non-whites (Blacks, "coloureds" and Indians) who lived near or worked in white-only communities. Soweto ("SOuth-WEstern TOwnships") furnishes a well-known example.

We didn't get to see the shacks up close this time, but I hope to get inside one, or at least walk in the streets there before I go home.

But in SOWETO they also have real houses, some built by the government, and some are also built by charity organizations. Lately people who live there have also built houses that are more similar in stature with those in more affluent suburbs, and many of the people who live in "matchbox" houses have also improved and expanded their homes. So really, you have everything from "matchbox" houses to houses you can find in the estate I live in!

After SOWETO we went to the Apartheid Museum. That was really, really heavy. It's appalling that something like that could happen in our time! I just don't understand it... How could the rest of the world just sit back and watch it happen?!? It's disgusting.

I took some pictures, but I'll get back to that later.

For more information on SOWETO, you can always google it, but this link is also a good way to go. And I really think you should read more about the history of SOWETO, because it is a huge part of South Africa's history, and people from our part of the world usually knows way to little about Apartheid, and the struggles and the reality of people less fortunate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto