Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Apartheid Museum and Soweto


http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/

Amy, Lauren and I went to the Apartheid Museum today. They have a special temporary exhibition on Nelson Mandela and it was soooo cool. the whole place was very cool. we didn't have as much time to go through it as i would have liked but it was very very interesting. i have an even more profound respect for this country and the struggles that it has gone through.

after the museum we went into Soweto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto) and explored. we saw Winnie Mandela's house, Desmond Tutu's house(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu) the Mandela's family house and we got our pictures taken in front of the Orlando Towers. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Towers). it was totally cool. we ended up at the Hector Pieterson Museum http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/hector-pieterson.htm we didn't go in but we spent some time at the memorial. it was very moving actually. a very good and historical day!!!

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