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After spending one day in Pretoria and going on a guided tour of Soweto, we headed for Swaziland. We stayed two days at the orphanage in Nhlangano before travelling by kombi to Mbabane. From there we arranged a hiking tour in the Komati Valley. It was a really beautiful place, although our crazy guide turned out to be slightly disorganised.

Southern Africa 2000 - Part 5: Soweto and Swaziland

Jan Arild Teland
2006-05-09 00:02:39

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they were just starting to walk, but now they had grown a lot and were running around all over the place. They were so cute that words can not express it! The brown one was very outgoing and curious whereas the blond one was a little shy and wanted to keep some distance. We played for a long time with them before going back inside.

We talked and relaxed in the living room for a while until all the kids came to watch TV. It was strange to see how polite they suddenly had become, asking me if they could do this and that. I was obviously considered the boss now that Borgny was away :-) The smaller children went around 20.30, but then some of the older boys came to watch football. They didn't leave until 21.30 when I was so tired I went straight to bed.

November 28, Tuesday

I got up at 07.30 to make some breakfast for us. We had a lot of dirty clothes now and I was planning to do the laundry while Jan Arild studied for his upcoming exam in "Game Theory". (He is finished with his education but he usually takes an exam at the university each term, just for fun). The laundry took a few hours but I didn't mind because I like doing it. I also like to fold the laundry :-)

Later we went to find the puppies again :-) The little blonde one was much tougher today, letting us hold it and play with it. The brown one, which I named "the lion" since she was so brave and had the right colour, was mostly interested in biting and chewing. She was more or less stuck to our shoes the whole time we were there. She was not a good influence on her sister, which soon took after her. Later it seemed they associated us with chewing because every time we came out they immediately came running and hooked on to our shoes or feet!

Without anyone to drive us around, we were a bit isolated at Ekuthuleni. We didn't feel like hitching into town, so we just stayed around the area. However, we tried to make some arrangements ...