Freiden, 24.08.2012
Opgestane gouf haut besse mi spéit, nämlech sou géint 09.00
well mir um 10.30 sollten vum Dave de Beer ofgeholl gin fir op Milnerton (ee
Quartier vu Kapstadt) ze foeren an sou endgültig Bonnievale ze verloossen.
Den Dieter war segoer extra net an Schoul gaange fir eis
Äddi ze soen. Et gouf na de Kuch opgeschnidden dee gaaaanz faarwig bannena warJ
Wie sou dachs hei an Afrika hat och den Dave Verspéidung mee
um 11.15 goung et du lass mat der
Rees. Mir am Combi an Elisabeth an den Mathias an hirem Auto hannendrun.
Jean-Mari hu mir och na zu Bonnievale bei der Schoul
matgeholl well hat de Weekend beim Karl zu Kapstadt verbrengt.
Ukomm zu Milnerton heescht nach laang net ukomm op der
richtiger Plaatz;-) 40 min si mir rondereemgefoer fir di richtig Residence ze
fannen. No poer Telefonater hate mir di richtig Wunneng fonnt. Mee dunn: wéi ee
Schlessel passt bei wéi eng Dier a virun allem wéi fonktionnéiert de
Schlessel???
Wéi mir du schlussendlich an der Wunneng ukoumen, hu mir na
vum Dave eis Fotoen kritt an hu se bezoelt.
Dono hu mir ganz séier dem Elisabeth an dem Mathias hiir
Accomodation gesicht fir nach zur Zait op den Table Mountain ze kommen. Di
lescht Opfahrt mat der Kabelbunn war nämlich um 17.00 Auer.
Um Bierg war et herrlich, eng super Vue iwwert den Ozean,
Stadt, Bierger, de Stadium, de Robben Island, an an an an.
No Fotoshooting an engem Rondgang op der Kopp ass et um
18.00 Auer mat der leschter Bunn erem rof gaang.
Well mir nach dee ganzen Dag naischt gees haten, goung et
dunn op Sich no engem lekkeren Restaurant J
Nodeems mir am Bo Kaap (ee Quartier mat ganz faarwigen
Heiser) naischt fonnt haten, si mir an dee nächst Beschten gaangen a mir hate
GleckJ
Am NEIGHBOURHOOD krute mir gudd zeessen. MMMMMMHHH.
Lo si mir rem an eiser neier Wunneng a gi lo schlofen well
mar um 09.00 geet et mam Cheryl op den Tour.
Samsten,25.08.2012
Mir haaten
keen Iessen am Appartement,
dofir huet d’Cheryl, eise Guide fir dei ganz Woch, eis an engem Supermarché
erausgeloos fir eppes klenges aunzekaafen, wàhrend d’Elisabeth an den Mathias
hieren geleinten Auto ofgeliwert hun. D’Cheryl ass eng mei eeler, leif Fra mat
laangen blonden Hoer an fillen Faalen am Gesiicht. Zu 8 ass dunn Eisen Tour
ugang. D’Cheryl soutz mat engem Micro um Kapp um Steier an huet eis a Richtung
Cape of Good Hope kutscheiert. Den 1. Stop haaten mir an engem Hafen fir op en
klengem Maart ze goen, Mat eiser Chance huet et grad dunn mat reenen an
stiermen ugefang. Dono si mir op enger Straußefarm stoen bliwen eiert mir an « Southern
Cape Reserve » erangefuer sin. Natierlech huet et erem ugefang mat reenen
wei mir d’ Auto’s Dier opgema hun. Dofir sin mir an den 2 Oceans-Restaurant
iesse gang. Mmmmh !
Mir hun dono den
Lift bis erop bei den aalen Leuchtturm geholl. Mir haaten eng Vue iwer d’Mier, dei
en bessen fun den Wolleken verrengert gouf, ir mir zu fous erem bei den Auto
getreppelt sin. D’Cheryl hue tons dunn
bis op Simons Town bei d’Pinguine gefeiert an dono nach bei farwech
Plagencabinen.
Am Pick’n Pay hun
mir dono akaaf fir d’ganz Woch. (Brout, Mellech, Jogurt, Cornflakes, Keis,
Gebees, Spagetti & Zoos, Toilettepabeier an Wäschmettel)
Owes hun mir
doheem zu 5 Spagetti giess, iwer Boopen an Henn geschwaan, an via Play-station
ob der Couche « Acress the Universe » gekukt (mat den Hoer
erbeigezunnent Musical)
Friday, 24.08.2012
This
morning we got up at around 09.30 for our departure to Milnerton (a quarter of
Cape town) with our driver Dave de Beer.
Even,
Dieter missed school because he wanted to say goodbye.
Jean-Mari
joined us in Bonnievale. She also wanted spend her weekend in Cape Town
together with Karl.
In
Milnerton, we couldn’t directly find the right flat, so we spend nearly 1 hour
on searching it. :-)
After having
solved this problem, another one appeared: how to open the doors???
Finally, we
managed to enter. In the flat we paid our photos that we got from Dave.
Next, we quickly
drove to Elisabeth and Matthias’s guesthouse to be on time at the station to
catch the last cable car to climb the table mountain at 5.00 p.m.
On the
mountain, it was so beautiful and the view was amazing. We could see Robben Island,
the stadium of the world cup 2010, the sea, the mountains, and so on….
After a
short photo shooting and a round walk on the top we took the last descend at 6.00
p.m.
On the
Ground, we realized that we were hungry so we decided to look for a nice
restaurant for dinner.
In Bo Kaap
(a Malay quarter with very coloured houses), we didn’t find a good one, so we went
to the next best and we were lucky. At Neighbourhood’s it was very lekkerJ
Now, we are
back in our new flat and are ready to sleep.
Tomorrow,
Cheryl will pick us up at 9.00 a.m. for another exciting tour. Good night.
Saturday,
25.08.12
As we had
no food in our flat, Cheryl, our nice and motivated guide for the last few days
in Cape Town, took us to a supermarket while Elisabeth and Mathias gave back
their rented car. In Cheryl’s Mini-Bus, we were driving in direction of the
reserve of the Southern Cape, to the well-known Cape of Good Hope. On that way,
we first stopped at a market of a harbour. Yet, as usual, it had just started
to rain. The next stop was at an Ostrich Farm, everything really expensive,
before getting to our final destination: the Cape of Good Hope. Unfortunately,
it started to rain only in that moment we opened the doors of our car. So we
decided to have lunch at the 2 Oceans Restaurant! Mmh =)
Then we
took a ride with the tramway up to the beacon of the Cape of Good Hope. We had
an amazing view and we decided to walk all the way back down. Together with
Cheryl, we got to Simons Town to watch the Southern penguins. Furthermore, she
took us to a beach with old, little, coloured wooden houses which are very
popular in South Africa. Then, a last stop at a supermarket to buy essential
goodies and aliments before, we, the five girls of the flat, were enjoying the
evening while eating
self-made spaghetti and sauce, watching the film “Across the Universe”.
Sunday,
26.08.12
This
morning, Cheryl, accompanied by her husband Karl, came to pick us up at 9
o’clock. We took a ride to a San-culture-project where we learned about their
languages and their old way of life. For lunch, we drove the West Coast further
up to get to a small self-service restaurant situated on a rock-sand-beach. You
only had one choice: a six-course-menu mainly consisting of different sorts of
fish, mussels and so on. Everything was eaten with the fingers and all in all
it took us 4 hours. After this enormous lunch, Cheryl and her husband fetched us
and drove with us back to Milnerton. At the Maestro-Restaurant on Milnerton
beach, we met Peter, his wife and her mother for a drink. Around 7 o’clock, we
drove to the Water Front with the My City Bus where we met Lisa and Marloes for
a last drink before Lisa’s and our departure and flight back to Europe. These
two offered each of us a present: African flower seeds! It has been a nice
evening until we had to catch the last bus back to Milnerton. It was a lovely
goodbye at the bus station and we had a safe ride home. The last surprise for
this day were the beetles that were waiting for us in our kitchen ;) Well, good
night then!
Monday,
27.08.12
At 10
o’clock in the morning, Angelo, the principle of the Warmth Project in South
Africa, was supposed to pick us up at our flat. Only at 11.30, Zanele, an
employee of Angelo, arrived with Elisabeth and Mathias at our flat and drove us
in a small car to a crèche and 3 kitchen of Warmth. His delay was due to riots
of two different political parties in Cape Town City. In that meantime, we had
unpacked Dave de Beers photographs and were disappointed as we noticed that the
zebra-photos were printed on the wrong photo-paper. Yet, we weren’t able to
reach him by phone.
Getting
back to our discovery-tour in the crèche and the kitchen of Warmth, we must say
that something appeared weird: different, but important statements about the
same subject, workers just standing around. As we got to the last and third
kitchen, we all had the impression and feeling that they were displaying us
something. And actually, they all first asked for money. We made different
observations and most of them were negative. After the visits, Zanele drove us
to the main office, to Angelo. As a result to our enquiry, Angelo took us,
after long phone calls, to another kitchen in a very dangerous and criminal
area of Khayelitsha where 4 days ago 4 teenagers had been shot to death. As we
drove off from the office, he informed us that he had no driving licence
anymore.^ ^
Arriving at
the kitchen, we got to know that it was in a private house, where the cook and
her husband were living, that the food was sold. Angelo had been talking for
fifteen minutes to the kitchen maid before we were allowed to enter the kitchen
and see that there was only one pot of 4 used and filled with food. We notice
that one of the employees was driving BMW? Having a bad feeling, we just wanted
to get back to our flat and get out of the intimidating car. Angeloa dropped us
out at the Spar in Milnerton where we bought some food and went to the beach to
write down our impressions of the day.
In the
evening, we took long to find a restaurant, but finally we settled in a
steakhouse. Not knowing how to get home, we accepted the offer of the waiter, who
was from Kongo and spoke French, to drive us home.