A Week of Curry

Hello to all of our dedicated followers.
Last week was our final homestay with an Indian family in Durban. We arrived on Saturday and after an introduction we got our homestay assignments and went our separate ways. We met again on Sunday for church and then went out for a picnic and games with the church members. We started our week at the Chatworth drug rehab centre where we got a talk about drug prevention in Durban. Next we went to the Hare Krishna temple. Hare Krishna is an Indian religion which has similarities to Hindu but also many differences. It's hard to explain. We then went to our first mall of the week. We went to one everyday, by the end of the week some had visited 4 different malls. Tuesday started with a talk about Indians in SA by pastor Dan, the pastor of the church. We then got another talk at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. After that we went to the Pheonix settlement. This was a settlement set up by Mahatma Ghandi during his time in SA, we toured his home. On Wednesday we went to the Victoria market to do some shopping. We then spent time at a Muslim mosque where we had a lecture on Islam and then ate a traditional Muslim meal with our hands. Thursday was spent at the Aryan Benevolent Home, a home for the elderly. We got a tour, sang songs and talked to the residents. On Friday we had a fun day. We started the day by taking a big bunch of kids to the beach. We spent the morning playing with the kids and making sure they didn't run into the water. After that we walked to uShaka watermark and basically unwound after a packed week. We took tube rides past the aquariums filled with penguins, dolphins and sharks, went downvthe tallest waterslide in Africa and the decided to start getting crazy. We took 22 people down a slide with 1 second gaps and then packed 17 people into an 8 person tube and went down a waterslide. We had a lot of fun and got some great videos. During the week we tried a lot of new, spicy foods and got to eat it all with our hands, every parents worst nightmare, be glad you weren't here. Well that was our week in Durban, bye for now.

Josh Paetkau