January 9th – Field Trip to the District Six Museum

This Friday, we had a class session in the morning and then we went to the District Six Museum. District Six is an area where thousands of South African black and colored people were forced to move out of their homes because it was located in a desirable place in the city for South African white people to live in. The houses were all bulldozed down, but no homes for South African white people were ever built on the land. It was just a college and a few other buildings. The people who previously had homes there are now on waiting lists to get land back in District Six. A man whose home was bulldozed down gave us a great talk. He is 70 years old now and hopes that before he dies he can move back to District Six.

Our whole group walked from District Six to the V&A Waterfront, an area situated on the harbor with lots of good food, nice shops, live music, and even a ferris wheel on Friday evening. We watched some cricket, walked around looking at the nice boats and had dinner at a restaurant with a deck right on the water. It was a really nice evening.