day 2

Today was our first full day in Cape Town. After a comfortable and highly anticipated sleep we were up early at 7am as schools in South Africa begin at 8am. The breakfast described as been "world famous" lived up to the expectation.

We took a long taxi drive with our driver Mesmin to St George's School which is a private school which caters for children from 4-18, and is one of the top schools in South Africa. The stunning architecture and a playing field which overlooked Table Mountain were just a few of the many attributes the school has. After a brief discussion on the schools history, we were given a tour of the site, from swimming pools to huge playing fields the school boasted its diversity of different cultures. We spoke to a number of the pupils the most friendly were the 13 year olds, who asked lots of questions as well as we did. It was plain to see that these children who had already had tickets for 2010 World Cup semi-finals and who often visited family in England were well off people.

In the afternoon while on a tour bus of Cape Town we visited a Shanty Town which contains 3000 people. This was a huge contrast to the previous school we had been too. Our tour guide showed us around his house which had been built as part of a project whose team included ex- boxer Chris Eubank. The people were very welcoming and half way through the tour we began to attract a small amount of children around 4 years old who were playing arounf and who were very feisty, after spending around half the time playing with them we were treated to a traditional African song and dance in the community hall. After the tour we hopped back on the bus to look at the rest of the sites. The visit to the Shanty Town was an experience which will stay with us all forever, the close friendship and family bonds which were apparent and the little money the inhabitants didn't dampen their liveliness and spirit.


After freshening up we met up on the harbor with the members of WISE, the leader Nick Evans kindly paid for a posh meal for us all. Due to the large extent of our party we were separated into a group of 13 and a table of 4, which we nick named "the kiddie table" as me, Paige, Simon and Tom were told to sit on it. We were lucky enough to meet up with the youth ambassadors from the Hull and Humber Clipper Becks and Ciaran. After lots of exotic food and several puddings later, it was time to go to bed and prepare for another day in beautiful Cape Town..........



Anna xxx