Chris Stevendale

What a day!  The scenery was out of this world. Mountains, fertile land, beautiful houses - must I go on? We visited 2 schools that were miles from anywhere.  One was in the middle of a wine estate where they had up to 60 pupils in a class - can you believe how that must be with few resources?  This school had brilliant teachers and I have passed on S3s postcards to their English teacher. The children were all very hungry and, like other schools, were on a feeding programme.  They were given jam ‘pieces’ for break.

The second school was 10 km along a dirt track and was so incredibly poor.  The little 5 year olds were just gorgeous.  All the children in the school danced and sang to us for at least 20 minutes so the video should make interesting watching. 

We followed up with lunch at Groote Post Wine Estate - excellent food and wine.  The plan was then to return to Cape Town and ‘do’ Table Mountain. That bad luck came to haunt us again however. For once, the mountain was free of cloud, but there was a technical fault with the cable car. When they had eventually fixed this, the wind was too strong. We hope, as a last gasp to go up tomorrow morning but if not, that’s it.  Fingers crossed.