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…The washing machine shuddered, the radio died, and the kettle stopped mid boil. The power was out again. She peered out of her window to make sure it wasn’t just her house was affected and then when she saw it… Her lottery ticket. She won R3.000. 000 and was it true? Really? Three million rands? No kidding. O, my God! Well, she must pinch herself that it is true. It is true. She verified with Lotto people. She did won. Nice. Well done. Do you really think she doesn’t know what to do with all that money? Hah! Nothing, like that. Bite your elbow. She knows what to do. And all that stupid, talk that people who won lottery, spent money for stupid things and become broken, because they don’t know how to manage their money… Not her, of course. So, really, what’s the plan? I think she should go to USA and try to settle there. After all, this land is a land for all immigrants. I am watching all that movies about life in USA and I think, I can picture myself in ...

SPONTANEOUS JOURNEY, part II .Next day was Sunday. It was time to go back to the city, back to work. That's why Sunday is a bit sad day. Still I have another day. They promised me photo-safari! It was my first time to see animals so closely, and I was excited. Not all of my photos were good. But I tried to come as close to animals as possible. South Africans have the luxury to watch animals and birds in game reserves. Parents usually take kids with them, that's how kids learn to love nature and animals. I went on photosafari with one family, and they were totally happy. I saved few photos from that journey. The last photos of statures were on entrance and when you were leaving. And it was very nice picture with request to clean your room-I like it.

SPONTANEOUS JOURNEY. (Part 1) I woke up from the noise. What was that? Agh...that was my cellphone making funny noises. My friend wanted me to come somewhere to wait for him. It was 2 a.m. in the morning. Dark. Long trip. I don't know this place. Somewhere in Mpumalanga. Can't it wait? There were coordinates, but they were not helpful.Can you imagine traveling during the night/early morning? But the thought of it stuck in my mind. In the early morning I went. Coordinates were not great. I was going round and round near Hartbeespurt Dam until finally I found a road straight to the place. Finally, after 3 hours( according to the indications it should have been 1 hour 40 min trip) I have arrived. Arrgh! Looking around I discovered it was just normal place. The only one thing, they had very good Wi-Fi (free!), because the place was used for conferences. Cold. December(it is summer in SA after all). Should be better. My friend did not arrive. S...

My Spiritual Journey in Cape Town. One of my first journeys in Cape Town was my visit to Robben Island. Robben Island is a world Heritage site. They say, it is one of the very few places,when you are staying on one Heritage site you can see the other (Table Mountain). Robben Island ( the name is Dutch for "seal Island")is roughly oval, 3,3km long, 1,9 km wide. It is flat. It is most well known island prison in the world. Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and Nobel Laureate spent 18 of the 27 years of his jail term, as well as Kgalema Motlanthe ( first Pedi President) and current president of South Africa Jacob Zuma. Historically Robben Island was used for isolation either of prisoners or, later on as a leper colony , and animal quarantine station. It became maximum security prison in 1961 till 1991. If you want to go to Robben Island you need to take a ferry from V&A waterfront. Find the Clock Tower, which is quite prominent, has red colour,...

If you have a lot of followers on all of your social media accounts it does pay off in many ways. I am going to tell you one more way how you can save money on your trip using your high number of followers on your accounts. The 1888 Boutique Hotel in Australia welcomes Instagram users, by saying that "every angle has a view". Hotel encourages Instagram users to photograph rooms, views and post them on Instagram. Users with more than 30 000 followers will be able to have a free one-night stay in the hotel. Those, who have less, will be able to take part in a competition to win free one -night stay. Fans of Twitter are also rewarded and can have fun in a Twitter friendly hotel Sol Wave House in Mallorca. Two consierges greet hotel guests via Twitter. Guests are able to check in,order room service and get deal by using the hash-tag. Hotel also has Twitter-themed parties, twitter-themed drinks, Twitter themed rooms, coloured in white and blue. Anyone who stays in the ...

3. Taste, texture and sound captures SA experience. And the first place in taste goes to Amarula- SA fruit and incredible liqueuer made from it, which is very popular all over the world. Texture- this is a difficult question. Sound-I would say definitely the sound of drums. Sound of drums captures purely African experience. SA doctors even developed special kind of therapy, which helps teenagers to overcome their problems. It’s rhythm, energy and significance is so South African that I think sound of drums will be in a first place.

.A2 What are the most important things first timers need to know about SA people and culture? Most important things about country are people. The most famous person is Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Visiting Robben Island will help to understand this country and it’s history.This is my list of 10 most important people in SA. Other important people in the history of SA: Jan Van Riebeek, Paul Kruger, Mahatma Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, Frederick de Klerk, Fransois Pienaar, Charlise Theron, Christiaan Barnard, Mark Shuttleworth. These people are well known throughout the whole world. They are in a history of the country and they are the history of this country. History of SA will tell important information about people and their courage, survival and struggle, ups and downs. SA was described as a melting pot of nationalities, where you can meet people from different countries from all over the world, starting from all African countries and also from Europe, Asia, India, even America. It represe...