Last week I was lucky enough to go to the Opening of the Soccer World Cup at the very beautiful Calabash Stadium - Soccer City.
I live quite close to the stadium, and have seen it go up on my way to various police stations in the area. I have even drive past on it a few times since it has been completed, but arriving on Friday with all the supporters and the people took my breath away and even made me a little teary to think about it.
We took the park and ride system from my old Alma Mater university, and the path the bus took was through downtown johannesburg. People in our bus where leaning out the windows and blowing their vuvuzelas, and chatting to people along the way in excitement.
I was leaning out the bus window trying to get photographs of the shops selling lovely shwe shwe dresses.
This picture has a bad reflection from the car parked in front of the shop, but the shwe shwe dresses in the window where just lovely.
We had seats way up high in the stadium and so the view of the opening ceremony was just perfect.
I fell in love with the Africa made up of women holding squares of traditional cloth.
Women and cloth are such an integral part of Africa's humanity and community really making the fabric of our societies that it touched me profoundly.
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