Typical South African

When one stays in a country for some time, one makes observations that a tourist might not realise. In South Africa, there are no park benches, so there is no possibility to just sit down somewhere. Either you sit on the grass or on a wall or you take a seat in a café.
It’s amazing to watch people “work”. If there are ten guys working, one actually shovels and the nine other watch him do it. Still houses are finished in no time and the region where we live will be full of houses until we leave South Africa again.
When you go shopping, you don’t have to pack your groceries into bags yourself, there is always somebody, who does this for you and puts it back into a trolley so that you can pack them into your boot without much effort.
At a petrol station you don’t have to get out of the car. You just tell the guy how much petrol you want or for how many rands he should fill up your tank and he does it for you.
The last three examples all show how this country tries to occupy as many people as possible. We have the feeling that a lot of people building houses just come there in the morning and ask for a job.
You should see how people are transported. On the back of a rover there are usually several people, without belt or anything. The police doesn’t stop people from doing that, so we suppose that this is allowed.
One thing that one can’t experience in Switzerland are the skies! They are always so magnificent. During the day one sees it clustered with various clouds at the same time. Sometimes one side is pitch black and the other is light blue. On one side we have the sea and on the other side we have a mountain range, so there are days where there is a strip of cumulus clouds just above the mountains. The sunsets are always so special; they fill the whole sky with pink clouds and create such a magnificent atmosphere. Trees show their black silhouettes in front of the red sun. The mystical play of the sun rays is mirrored in the ocean. The evenings here really are fantastic.