Peaceful week

During last seven days we have met Nicki and Thabo few times and discuss about what we have done and what we will do. This week we have mostly worked with Digital Doorway Business Plan. Besides Nicki and Thabo we also had a meeting with Isaac Mohlamme and Sebolelo Nhlapo from Thobologa Sign Language Institution - and of course their interpreter because unfortunately we can’t speak in sign language. We are going to work a lot with them during our last weeks here and we are really glad about that because we felt this project really interesting.

Project with Wireless Africa Alliance has been going well and Mika and Antti have had positive feedback on their work. WAA wikipage has been under boys attention and the sitemap and frame of the business section are coming together. Mika and Antti have also met couple new members of their project. They met Kobus Roux who is the head of WAA in Meraka Institute. Kobus, Mario and Chris will be Mika and Anttis contacts in Meraka for the rest of our time in South Africa since Michael Jenkins left to United Kindom already, when leaving Michael granted boys with two bottles of wine as a Christmas present. Mika and Antti also met Kanye (Mmamakanye Pitse Boshomane) who will arrange a one day trip to some rural town or township next Wednesday where Mika and Antti will talk to local infopreneurs about their micro-services.

The local cinema

Last Friday we met first time our whole class when we had small Christmas parties on our apartment. We bought Christmas lights and decorations to get a little Christmas atmosphere but it felt little strange to barbecue and swim in our pool in the middle of Christmas decorations. It was really nice to hear how’s it going with everybody and what kind of projects other groups have. On Saturday we spent our day with two girls who works in our gym. They showed us Mamelodi (their domicile) and we were able to see and talk with local people. The best thing in this trip was to attend in local wedding - see their traditional weddings and taste their traditional feast meal. On Sunday we went to Pilanesberg National Park. There we took a safari drive and saw lot of African wild animals.

Local weddings

After busy weekend we have had quite quiet in our apartment when other group (6 boys) left to ”tourist tour” into the villages. While they were on their trip we have visited Apartheid Museum, Rosebank Mall, African Craft Market, drove through Johannesburg centre and visited lions park, where we were allowed to pet orphan lion cubs and fed giraffes.