So the World Cup is over and I drove our last guest to the airport today. It's a bit of a sad feeling, but I'm also glad it's over. All of our guests really enjoyed South Africa and said the stadiums were world-class, the people were incredible, and the country was beautiful. The only complaint we heard was that the public transportation here could be better (and for all you vuvuzela haters, let the record show that it was the Europeans who blew them the loudest and longest).
I keep thinking about that octopus and how much faith people put in him. I keep thinking about our guests and how they created such an amazing sense of community while they were here, and how much we learned from them - how much our lives were enriched by learning a bit of their cultures. And I keep thinking about how proud I am of South Africa, for doing what the rest of the world didn't think could be done.
Ke a leboga Aforika Borwa.
1 comment:
Great entry and very positive. People had little faith in SA - not just now...but throughout the years and a shame that an event like this only now focus on SA whereas we'd been a beautiful country all these years, beautiful people...all these years and could have staged first world events years ago...but sadly, "things" from the past prevented us of doing so as the world focused on the negative and didn't try another way to bring SA's peoples together in a positive way. But hey...life goes on, despite all of those negatives of the past. Keep writing about the positives, we love it.
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