Church in South Africa

I must admit that I haven't been to church much here in South Africa. In fact it was my first service. But hopefully not the last one. It was good to spend some more time with God. He is a helping hand in times of need. I do hope though that the next services will not be like this one. I normally think 1 to 1 1/2 hour service, I were told that this one might last for 2, but I ended up staying there for 3 hours and 15 minutes. A bit to long for my taste. However, it lasted that long because they had some visitors from Germany, two who were confirmed, and one who got baptized. With other words, a lot that was going on. But it did feel good to be at a service again and I'm looking forward to see other churches.
Hope you all are doing well and God bless every one of you.
Vidar

What a SHOW!

Sunday 12th of october, I went to KwaMashu which is a township of Durban. They have their own YMCA group their and they hosted a show. In that show they had drama, dancing and singing, everything put together in one big show/play. I can't really describe how good it was, but the story was based on a true story. It was about how people ended up living there after being chased from their home and to KwaMashu. Even though I didn't catch the whole story because a lot of it was in zulu, I still got the feeling of importance of that story. You could feel the tension in the audience as well as the laughter wasn't fare away.
The way of performing it was excellent and I really wish that there were more shows like that. I must say that this show was one of the best new experince I've had so fare and hopefully I will witness something like it once more time.
Until next time I hope you all will behave..
Vidar

My norwegian friends=)

I've been quite lucky when I ended up in Durban. This is because I found out that a married couple from my home town also were going to move to the same city. I even knew them a bit. And it is always good to meet up with someone that you know especially when it is a bit unexpected.
So on friday this weekend I were invited to have dinner with them. They even had some visitors from Norway and the whole evening turned out to be a wonderful event. I had such a great time and hope to see them some time soon.
Unfortunately I forgot my camera, but will come back with some other pictures later from their home..
Vidar

Durban dance!

My reason for writing last weekend's new experience this late is because I just haven't had the inspiration to write. But I hope to become better at it! And that saying I want to tell you about my last weekend.
Because last weekend I had my first night on a dance club here in Durban. Some friends of mine took me to Skyy Bar which is a dance club at the top of a skyscraper. And as if that wasn't enough DJ Cleo had his new CD release that saturday. DJ Cleo is one of the more successful DJ's in South Africa! Everybody knows who he is!
And with that kind of music playing I had to learn how to dance the Durban dance so that I wouldn't stick out! I must admit it was great fun. Some of the moves they did were brilliant, but to bring them and the dance back to Norway will be a revolution that I don't think I can do on my own. But inside that club everybody were dancing and to see them go crazy were both a lot of fun and also a bit scary. Some of them went a bit fare you may say...
I could say that I wish I had some pictures, but I would be lying. I don't think anyone would understand because we would look like chickens to you even though I think the dancing was cool. Even so I couldn't do it because the flashlight on my camera is broken. But I did try to get some pictures were there was no movement. Hope you can enjoy them instead :)
Vidar

Outside Skyy Bar

The casino

The city

The MTN-cup final!!

On the 23rd of September I joined a couple of my friends to a football final. The teams were Kaizer Chiefs against Mamelodi Sundowns. With approximately 55 000 africans on the stadium the evening was about to become wild! The atmosphere and surroundings were amazing! And what a match! Even though it was 0-0 after 120 minutes the chances they blew away were HUGE! I must admit that this was one of the funniest matches I've ever seen live. Especially because it ended in penalty shootout and the goal closest to where I were standing was used. I think the World Cup will be a great success down here if the atmosphere is the same.