About an hour outside of Cape Town and on the way past some of the townships in is an area that harvests tons of grapes for the production of wine. This past Saturday we had the opportunity to go wine tasting at two of the vineyards outside of Cape Town. Just a reminder, the night before we had just got home from our five day stay in the township of Gugulethu. This is a place where there are cases of extreme poverty which contributes to many of the other issues this community encounters.
However, we were scheduled to go wine tasting this Saturday; I feel it was done on purpose so that we had the opportunity to see the disparity in South African culture. Here we were, at a beautiful vineyard at the foothills of the mountains drinking wine and eating cheese in a posh farmhouse with the vineyard owner's brand new Mercedes sitting out front.
Granted, wine is a huge part of South African culture, it is just difficult to see this luxury exposed at the expense of many who may not ever have the chance to indulge in the sweet taste of wine.
I am not trying to make a generalization or accuse anybody of anything, it just too hard for me to see the disparity in wealth which subjects people to sub par living conditions forcing them to deal with issues many of us have never even fathomed.
Love you all. Peace.
JB
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Molo Jesse,
This is Hilary's dad. It sounds like the class was great. I'm sure there are a lot of sites that will stick with you forever.... the disparity will obviously be one of those.
Good Luck,
Hil's Dad
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