Jo'Burg By Jetta

I am still not over the Jet lag and apparently Doris isn't either. I sleep for about three hours at a time than I wake up for several hours and lie in bed. There is a wind chime by my window that reminds me of home, I listen to it while I'm awake. Luckily I bought a thick book from the airport "Pillars of the Earth" I read almost a hundred pages last night, It's not bad.

Yan picked us up this morning at 8:45AM. Yan is "Behind the Mask's" (BTM) driver, his name is actually spelled Jan. He drives us in a white Volkswagen Jetta. The rear wind shield is covered by one of those slitted black sun visor things, like Kit of Night Rider. The car looks pretty cool. Also, It's right hand drive (like all cars) I road up front for the first time today. It's strange driving on the wrong side of the road I keep thinking that we are going to crash into something.


The car in front has the slits I'm talking about.

Doris and I had our first day at the office today. CurrentlyThuli Madi (BTM's managing director) is out of the office until thursday so it's been pretty light thus far. I used most of my time today to catch up on emails and get all of my internet business out of the way. Everyone at the office is very friendly towards Doris and I. After work Jan drove us to an electronics store on the other side of the city. We needed an international power converter. We took mostly local roads to get there so this was the first expansive look at Johannesburg. The dirt here is bright red orange. I noticed this at various construction sites we passed. Below are several pictures that I took while driving.

Bright red-orange dirt

A typical street in Hillbrow

The posters read: Zuma Calls For Peace, Gangster Terror At Home, and Downs Cash Bonanza

The Vodocom Building is visible all over the city. At night the Banner on top flashes with crazy lights.

God's time takes much longer than ours. I don't know what that has to do with mobile phones.