life in Jozi

Saw a few SA films over the last week or so - Africa Shafted - about living in Africa's tallest residential building - Ponte Tower. It was a good documentary, just interviewing people in the lift, people coming from a variety of African countries. Afterwards there was a QA w a journalist that lives in the building and he offered to take people on a tour - I hope we can go.

We also saw Man On Ground - a straight forward narrative film, made in Johannesburg - I thought it was good, both a universal story and a very SA story. I saw Rebirth at a free film screening held at a film studio. It was a collage, mostly about a part of town called Brixton.

We also saw a play called The Line, which was put together from interviews of people after the xenophobic violence in 2008. We have tickets to see a play tomorrow called Red, about Mark Rothko.

We have our tickets for China in October - very excited.

I finished reading Complications by Atul Gawande. It was good, though a little scary. Found it at the local thrift store for $1. I'm reading the last book in the Mike Nicol trilogy.

We spent Saturday wandering around Parkhurst, eating at the Leopard and getting pedicures. We spent Sunday on the internet.

There is a four day wkend coming up, and we are thinking of driving to Port Elizabeth.