30 april 2013

Pure Love.

GREAT WEEKEND WITH GREAT PEOPLE.
 Anna with the Southern Ambition T-shirt!

 Drunk?

 Amira!

 Comics and girls...

 Janilla and Wesley

 The river

 Peter!

 Mum-z, Peter, Que and Amira

 Anna, Wesley, Felicia

 Tired people on the way back to Cape Town

 Peter suited up..

Stand Up Comedy. Martin Davis.

29 april 2013

Best boys in the world

I'm home sick. Probably because of the festival - too much alcohol, cigarettes, dance and too less food and sleep. Being sick is Boring as hell!
But when Peter came back from work tonight he bought me pizza and then Maxi came in to us and had ice cream for us! I've been craving for ice cream the whole day. I only eat that when I'm sick.

The best boys!






26 april 2013

23 april 2013

GIRLS!

This is the girls I work with at the Soccer project (Streetwise Sports). Today was crazy. They couldn't sit still or listen more than 2 minutes. But man, they are so super sweet. Will be great to keep on working with them.

22 april 2013

Just great.

My favourite song with Johnossi and also a taste from their new album. GREAT!

18 april 2013

I know I talk about it all the time...

... but I love this place.
I just can't see myself living in Sweden anymore. I know I will find a way to stay here, maybe forever. I don't even wanna go home in June. I wanna see my friends and family of course. But I would rather have them all coming here! I know the first 2 weeks back "home" (what's home?) are gonna be awesome. But then? I will get so bored. I will keep myself busy with work tho. Yeah, work, that's gonna be funny. To see all the kids again. I miss them! And I will still have a lot of work to do with Southern Ambition. And I need to see Dina, Hanna and Pia. That means, some time to spend in Stockholm and some time to spend to have Hanna over from Germany. For sure. 3 months will probably fly away. They will. But it still feels weird. To leave. Leave home to go somewhere else that I'm supposed to call home too..

Song of the day. Fucking fantastic!

I really just wanna say:

I like you a lot. I appreciate you a lot.


and you're also freakin' hot!

17 april 2013

StreetWise Sports

I've found it! A project I will work with for a long time. I will start with once a week. Me and Sofia, a volunteer from Sweden will work with the girls and try get more and more of them interested in come and play soccer and other games with us. I will do this even when I'm back in September for sure. These kids are just amazing and lovely and to be able to do something together with soccer feels just perfect!




It's busy busy times, still.. I don't have a lot to write about at the moment. Life is good and I will try to make the best of my last 7 weeks here!

16 april 2013

Serious thoughts and some other stuff..

So, the thing in Boston. Yes, it IS terrible, I don't try to say anything else. BUT the thing is, there are so many worse things going on around the world that people don't give a shit about. Just so you know, 43 civilians were killed by a bomb in Iraq this morning. Every day people are getting killed in Afghanistan. People starve to death. There is AIDS. Malaria. I just really dislike the way media decides what we will know about. What kind of people that are more important in this world. Who we should care about. But yes, my thoughts are also going to the people in Boston today, of course...

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Seven weeks left. SEVEN weeks. May sound like a lot. But it sounds SO short. I feel like I have too much to do before I leave. But whatever, I will be back after 3 months again. It will be fine!

It's been busy days for almost 2 weeks now. The 12 new volunteers have been keeping me busy. We have been around Cape Town a lot and I've shown them to their projects etc etc.. yesterday we also got our first brazilian costumer, awesome news! We are really getting bigger and bigger.

I will try to rest this week. Take it easy, save some money. I need to catch up with some sleep.






12 april 2013

11 april 2013

One of those posts

I am really really tired of my head playing games with me. It's always effecting people around me that I don't want to effect. I learned on the way that it's most of the times better if I keep stuff to myself. But I've been told to talk about it. I really don't know. I've found a way the last years to handle this kind of things better, for me. I should probably stick to that because right now things seem to be complicated when they don't have to. I should trust myself in this, I know me and how I work in situations like this. When I don't do that sides of me is showing that actually isn't me! It's hard to explain to anyone that doesn't really know me. But those who do will tell me to talk about it, with someone NOT involved. It's like I just need it to get out of my head to anyone and then I feel better. But if I let it out to the person it actually is about, it will sound worse than it is and also get so much of a bigger problem than it actually is.

Ok. Weirdo Tania is out for today. A few more hours of work, then Stand Up Comedy. Tomorrow I'm off. I'm gonna go to the beach! Summer is on the way to become winter here..

My soundtrack right now.




Well this is easier now
I found all the pieces I lost in the flood
And it wasn't that much
And though it's easier now
I will always remember the night that I almost drowned
All alone in a house

And the love that I lost
With all of the shit that came out in the wash
Just a pocket of fluff
I'm not put upon
I am free of from disease no greys, no liver-spots
Most of the misery's gone... gone, gone to the bone

(I am)
I'm not miserable now
(I am)
No one knows
(I am)
No one knows
(I am)
I'm not miserable

10 april 2013

Why I'm here!

Yesterday made me remember what I'm doing here, why I can't leave and what I wanna do with my life. I went with 3 of the new volunteers to one of their projects. It's a project called StreetWise Sports and it's 2 friends of mine that are running it. Adam and Barney. I've known them since 2009/2010 when I was here and worked for MyLife. They are both coming from the streets and drug problems. But since 2010 they are running this amazing program. It's with kids in town. Street kids, poor kids, troubled kids. We went to the, probably, poorest area in town. A small, small township area in Bo Kaap. I live in Bo Kaap. I've heard about this place before but never knew it was so close to me. 500 meters and I'm there. It's crazy. Just around the corner from 18 million Rand houses..  This country... It's so weird. I can't really get used to it and I hope I never do. There are way too many people in this country just living in luxury and don't give a shit about that most of the people are living in poverty..

Anyway. So we took about 40 kids to a soccer field in the neighbourhood and they played like a tournament. I played one game and the kids were good! You could tell that the guys have been teaching them well. They played like a team and there was no fighting and I've never seen kids behaving so good for so long. Imagine 40 kids between 3-13 years old, hanging at the same place for 2 hours and there was no fighting or misbehaving at all. I'm gonna join every tuesday and we are gonna have practical sessions with them. Me and Sofia (the swedish volunteer) will take the girls and try to motivate them to play more. They want too but they are a little scared to play with the guys because the guys don't want them to play (same all over the world more or less I guess).




I will do this every week until I leave and I will keep up when I'm back , for sure! This is great!

These kids are living in the middle of drugs, violence and other crime every day. It's a part of their life. It's important to show them that there is a world outside that. Some of them won't be helped, but some of them will. And that's what counts.

8 april 2013

The weekend in words.


Three hectic days. I woke up on friday a little tired. (too many glasses of wine while talking about stuff with Peter the night before. But it was worth it). Had to be at airport around 10.30 am. Yvonne (a swedish woman that lives in Cape Town that I met a few months ago) helped me to pick up the six swedish students that were coming. We went to the hostel in Obz and then I took them for lunch and informed them about stuff. 

After an hour at the office I was going home to take a nap. Had another airport pick up at 7 pm. BUT, the traffic was CRAZY and it took me two hours to drive home. That made me to get about 20 minutes to shower and change, then I had to leave again. Jamie went with me to the airport and the we picked up the 7th Swede, Therese. We took her and the other volunteers to a Braai at Jakes and Davids place. So, after this. No rest. I drove Peter to the airport at 2 am. He was going to Johannesburg to MC the Holi Colour Festival there (now called We are one colour festival). Funny thing; when we came to the airport I just told Peter (after reading at the board): Eeeeeeh, the first flight is at 5.45 am, just so you know. Haha, he could have slept some hours. Instead he had almost 4 hours to kill at the airport. I went home to sleep! :) 

At saturday me and Jamie went with the swedes to Old Biscuit Mill. I love that place. Well, if you love food you gotta love that place. And then we showed them town. At 9 pm i went to the airport again. The 2 last swedes arrived. After that we went to a houseparty at Amiras place. I was not planning on a night out but I ended up going home around 4.30 am... Sunday was VERY sleepy. In the evening the swedes invited me and Jamie for a braai. Very sweet. They are a fantastic group of people and I have a feeling it's gonna be 5 amazing weeks. In the eve I picked up Peter at the airport again. 5 times at airport in 3 days. New record! 

That was my weekend. I am tired now. But I love this. This is the part of my job that I have to remember when I have to be in the office a lot. I know there will be a lot of nice and inspiring days later!

And, when you find stuff like this you know that you actually do a good job:
"What seems most amazing is that we are treated so well here. Instead of leaving us to our hostel, or for ourselves, we are invited to a lot of nice places by Tania. I think that contributes a lot to why I feel so amazingly good here right now. Always feel welcome is a feeling I would get used to!"

This is from one of the volunteers blog. 

4 april 2013

PEACE!

This world is fucked up. Wars. Racism. Abusing. Killing. Hating.

What if we all could think like John Lennon?

You may say I'm a dreamer... 


Imagine there's no countries 
It isn't hard to do 
Nothing to kill or die for 
And no religion too 
Imagine all the people living life in peace

2 april 2013

Back on track!

April. Already? Really? Wow, time flies!

A long weekend in the back is making it much easier to be back at work today. Lots to do, but I feel inspired! On friday all the students and volunteers are starting to arrive. At monday it will be 12 of them! Amazing how fast we are growing. Since I started this work only 10 months ago we've had about 25 volunteers/students here. And there are more coming. I have to remind myself sometimes that I and Dina did a great job with this! Lot's of heart and passion is sometimes all you need.

I wish I could split myself in two. I really miss home and people. But I also REALLY don't wanna leave this place. Not even for 3 months. This is home too. Same thoughts in my head as always, as you can see :)

Anyway. I realize I've been lazy with my camera. No photos in a long time. I will be better, promise. Yeah, no excuse, Im just lazy.

I stay alone now, for 2 months. My house mate is in Italy. It's weird to stay alone. But also nice. I get bored sometimes. But it's nice to be able to do what I want to, whenever I want to. Like walking around naked.... :)

Well, no big news from my side. Just some random talking about nothing. I've lost some writing skills again. They will come back, I'm sure.

I'm still amazed about how much you understand and how much you are able to handle. I don't just wanna say that all the other guys I've seen been assholes. I also think it's You that are pretty awsome!