Joe Slovo -- Sunday Library

For those of you that wanted to see pics from Sunday Library, here are some of the pics (I still haven't posted up mine cause Jen's got them on her computer she needs to dl off her digital camera). But these ones are from when Patty went prior to my visit, so credit to her for the pics.

As you can see the squatter camps are a mere shack after shack. The roofs are held together either by large rocks or barrels to hold it down.

You will never see anything close to the resemblance of Joe Slovo here in Canada. My roomates every Sunday would often go to Sunday Library to read to the kids. While living in J'burg I never had the chance to though I really wanted to so bad. Despite living in Pretoria, it was obvious that we missed our friends in J'burg tremendously. So my roommated Jen and I would go down to J'burg on the weekends, whenever we could catch a ride with a friend.

So after having a Brit night we finally went to Sun. Library. Caroline and Raj had to pick up the new intern early that morning. Its funny you drive just minutes away from the city thinking this slum is miles away, only to discover that it's just blocks away. It was exactly as I had pictured it from the pics I'd seen online, crowded. Jon went around rallying up the kids and Jen and I began reading and colouring with the kids. Before we knew it we had a huge crowd. I began doing oragami with the kids, which was a huge it.

You discover that kids are kids regardless of where you are.