Jamon Clark CSCSA16: Day 3: Church and Soweto

Since the local Mormon congregation was watching a tape delay of General Conference (I saw it last week). I went to the local Catholic Church instead. This could have been the beginning of a joke, a Catholic, Episcopalian and a Mormon walk into a Catholic Church and.........
It was a nice service. No singing for the 7:30AM service which I LOVED. Like drumming, music is not my strong suit.

Then we toured.

We saw the Apartheid Museum, which was put together really well. I could have explored much longer. I am a self described speed tourist, but my goodness it was a great display. I could have spent more hours there. Perhaps it is that I am getting old and I kind of remember this when I was young. I also read Mandela’s Biography a few years ago. So I was engaged.

They had colored sticks and people can find a Mandela quote with a color, then you put a colored stick on the walkway.

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Soweto is an area that is not as well off as other parts of South Africa.
They have a strong history of helping curtail apartheid. Here is a cool link for you history buffs.
http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/june-16-soweto-youth-uprising
Kids you can make a difference!

I loved seeing the street, and the homes We spyed Desmond TuTu's residence and Mandela's dwellings. Two Nobel Prize winners a few blocks apart, the call the street Nobel Laureate Walk.

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I am a little out of order but it is flowing better this way. We had lunch.
It was delightful, I even had a wifi signal and woke my wife wife for Church (2PM in South Africa is 8AM US). There were these woman that ran a 5K for cancer, and they skipped everything in line for one thing...SAMP a kind of bean. I followed suit and it was good. However I was not enjoying any other part of the meal.

We saw a few other things
Here is a human rights monument that was a foundation for the Partied. There is a symbol of the X everywhere that I was told was for voting.