Weekend

Friday night we made popcorn with our host family and watched one of their favorite movies, Sarafina, with Whoopi Goldberg. The movie was about the student uprisings in Soweto, South Africa's largest township, during apartheid.
On Saturday I woke up to a very rainy day in Durban. Molly and I spent the day shopping at The Pavilion, one of the large malls here. We also saw the new movie, Robin Hood, which was excellent.
Sunday was a beautiful, sunny day. We rode a mini bus taxi to downtown Durban. From there we navigated our way to Victoria Street Market. My mission: to find Zulu baskets! I found a great market shop that had amazing, affordable Zulu baskets. I bought four for myself and one as a gift for my mom's birthday. Here are the baskets Molly and I bought.


After our market adventure we walked to North Beach where we enjoyed a tasty lunch at Joe Cool's overlooking the beach. Then we lounged on the beach for the afternoon. The rest of our evening we spent having dinner with our family.