Khayelitsha

Day one of our overnight township experience.
Khayelitsha is the second largest township housing over 1 million people. Many people live in the same type of shacks that I described before but some have actuall houses. Vicky runs a B&B out of her house year round.
When first getting to khayelitsha we toured the fan park that was organized within the township. A fan park is a place where people who couldnt get tickets to world cup games to watch them on big screens and get together to represent their country. I think it was a great idea to have a fan park within a township because than everyone can get a chance to witness the world cup no matter of your social status.
We met with Elise, a woman who volunteers within khayelitsha, to visit local schools and community centers. \when visiting the schools we brought along coloring books and lollipops to give to the kids. It was a rush to see how excited the kids got over a lollipop, something we think of as so simple and available to us.
We got to visit with an organization called Women for Peace where they served us an amazing authentic lunch and performed cultural dances. The teenagers that are involed gave us a short walking tour of the township to give us an idea of their life.
For dinner we headed over to Vicky's B&B. This is where the lifechanging experience really began. While waiting for dinner to be served we took another walking tour around a different part of Khayelitsha. There was a little girl that latched on to a couple of our students for the duration of the tour, we werent sure whos kid she was but she wanted to come with us for whatever reason, it was cute.
Dinner was another authentic meal which I wasnt really a fan of this time. I dont do well with spices so I didnt eat much. Everyone else seemed to enjoy it though. Vickys house only has 6 bedrooms so some people had to stay other places within Khayelitsha. I was deffinitley nervous to see if I would be one of those. Luckily Amber and I were assigned to stay at Beauty's next door, we werent comfortable with this and ended up sleeping on vickys couches which turned out well. Some people got sent to a random persons house, turned out to be vickys cousin, and ended up coming back because they werent comfortable witht the situation. We'll just say that some people got luckier than others  but we all got a shocking experience out of the night.
Meganne