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By: Grace Bielefeldt<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Hallo, hoe gaan dit? Ons is in Suid-Afrika, en dit is baie lekker!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I scored on blog post scheduling because we have had quite the eventful week this week, and South Africa is a place that I am quite fond of! I\u2019ve definitely had my opportunities to practice some Afrikaans with our driver Jeff and our guesthouse host Cindy. But wow, it has been a whirlwind. The jet lag is finally starting to wear off, and the days are flying by (pun intended). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s set the scene by starting at the beginning\u2026 Sunday, our free day. We started it off with a lovely breakfast (I\u2019ve been avidly preaching Beefy Bovril meat and vegetable spread) before a good chunk of us, all in our Sunday best, headed back to Regina Mundi Catholic Church<\/a> for Sunday mass.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, if I had a nickel for every language I have attended a Catholic service in, I would have four nickels (English, Italian, Japanese, and now Zulu!), which is not a lot but it\u2019s weird that it\u2019s happened four times. I thought the service was great! The music was wonderful and I\u2019ve never danced so much at mass. I also found it so cool how the preacher code-switched during his sermon between English and (presumably) Zulu and back, which made it really interesting to listen to. He had very compelling things to say about 1 Timothy 6:10 (money is the root of all evil), and how while all things in life are subject to change, God remains constant. Definitely food for thought!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After church, a few of us headed back to De Baba Eatery<\/a> for lunch where I had a Spicy Welsh Rarebit (I also don\u2019t really know what that is), which was pretty good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also made a quick visit to a little nearby bookstore where I found a relic Apartheid-era textbook that teaches Zulu to Afrikaans speakers, which I was tempted to buy before I decided that it might be just a little outside of my skill range. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Then me and some friends decided to take a quick jaunt up a nearby hill a couple blocks from our guesthouse, part of the Melville Koppies Nature Reserve<\/a> (which I didn\u2019t realize at the time, but is a recognized Iron Age city heritage site that was referenced as a sacred site in a later museum we would visit). There, we enjoyed a nice hike, a beautiful view of the extensive city of Johannesburg, and a brief few minutes of reflective silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n