Heard this little titbit on the radio on my way to the office this morning. Apparently a police officer was fired after using the F word in the presence of his superior. Now....I wonder what the unemployment rate would be in this country if that became the norm?
Ridiculous...
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
...niks gewoond nie...
Early last week a friend of mine sent me a funny email about being "Proudly South African". One of the points were: "you'll drive 100's of kilometers to see snow". That made me smile, because its so true :)
Snow is not a common phenomenon in this country, in fact: most people never experience it. When we were little we thought of snow as a kind of fairytale land :) And we can't imagine how it must be in other countries where people experience it daily during their winter time (though I've heard many regard it as an annoyance).
And then late last week....it snowed! Not everywhere, just in the higher mountainous regions. Yesterday we decided to take a drive, and go have a look. We thought it would be a quick trip, but didn't realize that hundreds of people had the same idea! Boy, what a surprize!
I've seen snow in New Zealand and Europe, so it was rather disappointing for me - only patches of white, no white carpet. But it didn't seem like people minded. Snowmen were being built everywhere...mostly on people's cars, or in pickup trucks! It was quite amusing to watch them all :) Some would stop often, to fix it up again.
Needless to say, on the way home we hit traffic! At some points we went 10kmh max. Got home wayyyyy after dark, but it was fun nevertheless:)
Snow is not a common phenomenon in this country, in fact: most people never experience it. When we were little we thought of snow as a kind of fairytale land :) And we can't imagine how it must be in other countries where people experience it daily during their winter time (though I've heard many regard it as an annoyance).
And then late last week....it snowed! Not everywhere, just in the higher mountainous regions. Yesterday we decided to take a drive, and go have a look. We thought it would be a quick trip, but didn't realize that hundreds of people had the same idea! Boy, what a surprize!
I've seen snow in New Zealand and Europe, so it was rather disappointing for me - only patches of white, no white carpet. But it didn't seem like people minded. Snowmen were being built everywhere...mostly on people's cars, or in pickup trucks! It was quite amusing to watch them all :) Some would stop often, to fix it up again.
Needless to say, on the way home we hit traffic! At some points we went 10kmh max. Got home wayyyyy after dark, but it was fun nevertheless:)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)