Today, some of us went shark diving near Hermanus. I think all of us but 2 or 3 were seasick. We did manage to see three or four sharks though. The sea was rough and we were actually in the water, were bouncing around in a steel cage dunking our heads under the water when the dive master instructed us to do so. They threw out a rope with fish meat attached to attract the sharks to an area around the cage to give you and up close and personal encounter with the ‘great white’.
The program officially comes to an end tomorrow, but my time here has definitely left some lasting memories and professional skills related to small business consulting in South Africa. One of the lasting memories that I have thought of again and again during my time here is how an areas like Stellenbosch, the Cape Flats and Cape Town are so different and allow you a make stark comparisons of some pieces of South Africa that don’t necessarily fit together very nicely. For instance, our bus driver from Cape Town brought along his dog ‘Lucky’ for our trip to Hermanus today. After ‘Lucky’ snapped at a guy on the road trying to sell cell phone chargers to each passer-by, the driver said to us ‘Lucky’ doesn’t like black people.
Unfortunately, ‘Lucky’ isn’t the only one that suffers from stress caused by the company of ‘others’. There are xenophobic people everywhere in the world but (more…)
