Good to be Back

Gotta make this one short and sweet:

I'm currently back in Luanda, at the airport waiting for my luggage to arrive at the baggage claim area. Well it's not even luggage, it's just a backpack, but the check-in guy made me check it in because it went over the weight limit... grrr so annoying considering that with the Angolan airline you have to wait a looong time for the lugagge to get from the plane to the claim area. It could take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours... it just depends on the staff they have at hand. SOOO annoying!

Anyway, it was good to experience South Africa. My impression of it? It was just like being in the U.S. lol. Seriously, everything reminded me of the U.S. except for the driving backwards and the funny accents. It's nothing like other African countries. There's courteous customer service, an abundance of stores providing anything you need within a 1 mile radius at any given urban area, a mixture of races among the population, billboards everywhere that emphasize just how much of a consumerist culture exists. The hotel was nice and clean. The people were nice. Taxis are expensive... not like in Angola where they cost $1 or $2... lol. I can't speak much for Johannesburg the city itself, since I stayed in a suburb (Midrand) and only familiarized myself with that area... but seeing as how everything there reminded me of America, it's probably alright to assume that it's just like any other big city in the U.S. Except maybe more crime...

Anyways, it's good to be back. I took this trip like a mini-vacation and indulged in a salon trip to tighten my locs and get a pedicure. Then I indulged some more by eating a delicious sit-down dinner each night (vegetable curry and rotti one night, sushi the next night...) instead of the usual fast-food meals I stick to when I'm traveling and broke.
All in all, definitely a good place to hang with the KJSC... I'm sure we would have a lot of fun there, as long as we do our research beforehand regarding things to do and prices.