In the month of July three of my oldest friends Kai Kaffka, Jack Voß and Ulf Wahner gave me a visit and I tried to show them everything that I’ve been exposed to as good and compressed as I could. I was as excited as anyone who hasn’t seen his best friends for a long time. The permanent smile in my face was even noticed by my fellow volunteers. As we toured around they got to know some of my South African friends and also, with some difficulties in the beginning, the local handshakes and high fives. They even learned some SiSwati in their limited amount of time. Yebo phela (yes of course). During our conjoint vacation we’ve seen the Blyde River Canyon, the Sabie waterfalls, the MacMac Pools, the Valley of Death, the Sudwala caves and the Kruger Park. But this one moment that has touched all of us in an instant of a second happened at the Good Hope center in Mataffin. Together with Sifiso, one of my South African friends who is volunteering at
that center, we’ve donated 20 mini toy cars to children between the ages two and five. Half of the kids started playing around with the cars. Driving, shoving and crashing them. The other half got colored pens and paper and they started painting the most terrific pictures, which were handed over to us as an appreciation for our donation. After a while the kids started rolling the cars over to us and we rolled them back, until there was a line of five kids rolling cars without any order or timing, which made it quite impossible for any of us to handle. This must be the worst nightmare of any traffic analytic. The next thing that happened was little happy smiling kids all around us. Over, under, in front,
behind, on the left and on the right. If you started taking one kid up in the air the next one was already in the line ready to take the chance of breathing the air of the big people. If the line was short you had to take the same kid up twice or thrice. My oh my, were some of them heavy. My other favorites were the footrace with a kid on each foot, an act of piracy were at least six kids captured either Kai or Ulf or even both plus one of them stole Ulf’s glasses and last but not least Jack holding two kids on each arm and if I remember it right even one or two on his back. What a day. I bet we’ll still remember this day for many years to come.
In the month of July three of my oldest friends Kai Kaffka, Jack Voß and Ulf Wahner gave me a visit and I tried to show them everything that I’ve been exposed to as good and compressed as I could. I was as excited as anyone who hasn’t seen his best friends for a long time. The permanent smile in my face was even noticed by my fellow volunteers. As we toured around they got to know some of my South African friends and also, with some difficulties in the beginning, the local handshakes and high fives. They even learned some SiSwati in their limited amount of time. Yebo phela (yes of course). During our conjoint vacation we’ve seen the Blyde River Canyon, the Sabie waterfalls, the MacMac Pools, the Valley of Death, the Sudwala caves and the Kruger Park. But this one moment that has touched all of us in an instant of a second happened at the Good Hope center in Mataffin. Together with Sifiso, one of my South African friends who is volunteering at 
that center, we’ve donated 20 mini toy cars to children between the ages two and five. Half of the kids started playing around with the cars. Driving, shoving and crashing them. The other half got colored pens and paper and they started painting the most terrific pictures, which were handed over to us as an appreciation for our donation. After a while the kids started rolling the cars over to us and we rolled them back, until there was a line of five kids rolling cars without any order or timing, which made it quite impossible for any of us to handle. This must be the worst nightmare of any traffic analytic. The next thing that happened was little happy smiling kids all around us. Over, under, in front,
behind, on the left and on the right. If you started taking one kid up in the air the next one was already in the line ready to take the chance of breathing the air of the big people. If the line was short you had to take the same kid up twice or thrice. My oh my, were some of them heavy. My other favorites were the footrace with a kid on each foot, an act of piracy were at least six kids captured either Kai or Ulf or even both plus one of them stole Ulf’s glasses and last but not least Jack holding two kids on each arm and if I remember it right even one or two on his back. What a day. I bet we’ll still remember this day for many years to come.
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