Wow, its been two months to the day since I created this blog!! Typical for me I haven't written anything new since then!
In the past two months some major events have happened in our lives... We were burgled, Ode got her citizenship, passport and ID, and plane ticket to America (thanks to wonderful friends in the USA), Lee-Anne has finally got a job as a classroom assistant, and of course we (those of us in South Africa) have helped to host the FIFA World Cup! I have also handed in my notice for the house I live in and am hoping to find a lovely little cottage in Observatory, the suburb where we attend church, and also where the Adonis Musati Offices are situated. This should be fun, it hopefully will be a time of clearing out a lot of junk accumulated in the past two years. It will be a new phase in our lives. It'll be just Lindo and I (and perhaps Lee-Anne upon occasion), and I am really looking forward to starting all over again someplace new! I will miss Ode like mad, but hopefully a new place of abode should help ease that.
The World Cup has been awesome. I hadn't been too sure about whether I was going to enjoy the hype or not. I had visions of traffic galore, annoying tourists and just general chaos! As it happens, the vibe has been wonderful! It has truely felt like we have been part of the whole euphoria, being able to walk down the fanwalk on a match night, watch matches at the Fan Park in the Grand Parade, and generally enjoy it for what it is! Of course there have been some downsides, Englands poor performance for one! However I found it fascinating that my heart was more hurt at Ghana's loss than Englands!
The Final is on Sunday, in two days time. In some ways the World cup feels like its been going on forever, on the other hand I can't believe its almost over! For us who work closely with refugees we have the very real concern of the post-world cup violence towards refugees that has been threatening to raise its ugly head recently. Even as I type I am saddened to think of all the refugees who are lined up along our National Roads desperately wanting lifts to Jo'burg and on to Zimbabwe, for fear of being attacked next week! The fear is real even if the rumours aren't! And surely if the rumours fly around fast enough, they can result in action, even if they just started as vicious rumours! Please pray for these people whose biggest crime is coming here in the first place and wanting to work hard! Those South African's who have quickly forgotton how it feels to be terrorised are now the terrorisors. What to do??
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