Sunny South Africa

[Stormboy]

LOL...okay onw I know what most of that was but what is kuier?

kuier = go visit

 

[Stormboy]

my name is not Tini

 

[Cassiopeia]

kuier = go visit

Ah...thanks well it is four am here..time for bed...night all

 

[Stormboy]

Ah...thanks well it is four am here..time for bed...night all

Were are you Cas? at 4 am you not in SA

 

[Tini]

Cas is a full blown , honourary SAfrican by marriage living in the States (and not the Free States other side Kroonstad either ).

 

[Stormboy]

Cas is a full blown , honourary SAfrican by marriage living in the States (and not the Free States other side Kroonstad either ).

LOL
Good one
Thanks Boeta!

My afrikaans is bad too.
When I was there I could understand allright but speaking was a bit of a efford.
It would not take me long to get the hang of it again, should hang around with South Africans

 

[Tini]

You're in the right place.

I even find I get rusty when I dont use the language. I lived in Natal for 3 years and was really rusty when I moved to Joburg.

 

[Stormboy]

You're in the right place.

I even find I get rusty when I dont use the language. I lived in Natal for 3 years and was really rusty when I moved to Joburg.

Sort of anoy me when I think I am loosing my taal!

 

[Tini]

It's good to keep your culture - even if you don't live in SA. My wife is Afrikaans by birth. But we speak 97% English @ home. However, I want my kids to learn Afrik and keep their culture. My sis - in - law get angry with us. She lives in the US - but they still speak 40% Afrik at home. Says we are selling out. I guess, when you are surrounded by something, you dont have to fight to keep it?

Keep the culture - its a good country that we come from.

 

[Stormboy]

It's good to keep your culture - even if you don't live in SA. My wife is Afrikaans by birth. But we speak 97% English @ home. However, I want my kids to learn Afrik and keep their culture. My sis - in - law get angry with us. She lives in the US - but they still speak 40% Afrik at home. Says we are selling out. I guess, when you are surrounded by something, you dont have to fight to keep it?

Keep the culture - its a good country that we come from.

Yep I sometimes think I should find some clubs here there must be groups of South Africans here, so I keep speaking Afrik.

I remember when I came to Aus my oldman use to tell me to speak English ... did not impress me at all

And yep South Africa is a good country, when I was there I felt at home, did not bother me one bit, people here told me you will be wantign to come back after a week after the 3 weeks I wanted to stay

 

[Tini]

It's good to hear.

Have you checked www.homecomingrevolution.co.za ?

 

[Tini]

I don't know about anyone else, but our [Baptist] church discussed the issue at length several months after the Lotto was started. We came to the conclusion that the Lotto is gambling, and that gambling was wrong, the logical conclusion being that playing the Lotto was a no-no. IIRC it had to do with not placing our trust in God to provide financially.

Anyhow, how many years down the line, and I don't regret stopping when I did. I have a Peace in my heart about it, and that's good enough for me.

Comments?

I agree - Lotto is gambling - and I'd rather trust God. But I'm not so legaistic. School raffles are also gambling in the strictest sense. It's really between you and God. He doesn't say anything clearly in the Bible about Lotto - so I've heard people interpret (misinterpret) the Bible to fit their viewpoint.

We also dont do Lotto - and are blessed because of it. Also dont do casinos or horses. Will put a few rand on the annual July Handicap office draw however. I dont play Lotto - but also dont put a heavy on those that do. I will tell them I think/know it is gambling and dont believe that we should - but again there are other Christians who dont listen to rock music - I haven't been convicted of that and still do.

 

[Cassiopeia]

Tini you are so sweet...thank you for welcoming me like this. But you know what else could I have expected but another safe haven for this SA adoptee.

Casi

 

[Cassiopeia]

Were are you Cas? at 4 am you not in SA

I am in Utah ...still on SA time though. I can't sleep at night here to save my life. Too much time in Port Elizabeth the last two years..flying back and forth. My sleeping is way off.

Casi

 

[Tini]

PE - I go there for work quite often. We have a plant in Deal Party (near Motherwell - on the coast next to the Grahmastown Highway).

I often stay in Summerstrand in a hotel.

Have a really good friend there too. He worships in one of the NCMI churchs there.

 

[Stormboy]

I am in Utah ...still on SA time though. I can't sleep at night here to save my life. Too much time in Port Elizabeth the last two years..flying back and forth. My sleeping is way off.

Casi

LOL
The body clock is a bit hay wire
Well I am hanging out here to now Tini you have to put up with me
I did check out the site.
you know when I came over there, I looked at jobs there at one stage just for in case things turned out diffrent

And you know how you know you going to regreat things later! well I am not meeting up with you on the way back

 

[Tini]

Well there's always next time. I look forward to meeting any of you guys back here.

Cheers

 

[Cassiopeia]

PE - I go there for work quite often. We have a plant in Deal Party (near Motherwell - on the coast next to the Grahmastown Highway).

I often stay in Summerstrand in a hotel.

Have a really good friend there too. He worships in one of the NCMI churchs there.

I stayed a great deal in Summerstrand. Sometimes at the Paxton Hotel..other times at the Cascades and then I rented a flat next to the Beach Hotel in a building called Great Bandle. After that I stayed in Westering, in a flat attached to my husband's mother's house and rented from her.

Good times hey ? I lived in Cpt for a bit as well. In a burb called Edgemead. I attended UCT in 2000 and when my children just couldn't handle being away from here we moved back to Utah. I had kept my home here as well as the having ahome in Edgemead. A bit weird after six months to come home..take the sheets off and carry on like we never left. Now we always talk about how we shouldn't have left SA.

Casi

 

[Tini]

The Paxton - that's where I stay when I'm in PE too!

 

[Stormboy]

Goeiemore ! Tini & Casi