ITS RAINING IN LONDON/ DONT STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH

team left yesterday, it was sad to see them go, but looking forward to the next adventure, went a checked myself in to "simply the best" backbpackers a rather optimistic title, it is total backpack stero type, the owners dog is called ganga, i went out last night with a german 2 south aficas(one with dreads), a dutchman and a californian girl! first we went to a bar that had really good guinness, it soon transpired however that it was a gay bar, and without being arrogant i think i was on the way to pulling, so quickly jumped in a taxi and we headed to a club in town, it was quite swanky, a sort of milk feel to it, the music was amazing and we did some serious dancing till after 3 and it was only a pound for a beer..
we finnished the night in a food place called Mr Pickwicks, which had.... HP fruity!!! legend

today got up late and read a bit of bible im well behind in cover to cover, it was really sunny so i decided to go to a park to read in the sun, opened to lonley planet and looked at the map to find the closest piece of green, unfortunately it turned out to be a bit dodgy but before i got mugged by the teenagers a old guy called lionel came and made friends, (cape town if full of beggers and stuff) and although we were generally advised against giving them money, and i know its not good to encourage it but i read the Matt 25 sheep and the goats, when i was hungry you .... so me and lionel went for a KFC, interesting guy, had done time on robin island had a family far away on the cape flats, earned a little money from car minding(a common thing in SA) but couldnt get work and didnt want to steal. chatted a bit about home ie the norn iron situation, and then i was thinking about some sandboradiing i booked for tomorrow and whether Jesus would have done that or maybe give this guy the money...

so maybe he was spinning me a great story and maybe i was a fool for giving him the cash but maybe he wasnt and anyway i dont really need to go sandborading. it was nice to do something a bit different and i felt God leading me and closer after it so im happy enough

it still recks me but cause you cant give every kid on the street some change but yet arent we meant to treat eveyone we meet like they are Jesus?

FEAR and POWER

went to the district 6 museam this morning, it was an area of cape town where different races lived together happily until the SA government decied it should be a "white area" and told everyone to leave to townships and buldozzed the whole area to the groud!!! really horrible aparteid stuff, it hit me pretty heavily when the guy who used to live there said the police would have beaten him up just for looking at a white girl... why does this happen why did the christian churches provided a "biblical backup" for it?
seems to be a mixture of power hunger and fear, people wanting power and to retain it will pretty much do anything to a people group they see as a threat, i.e. fear. hitler, sectarianism all bad stuff that humans do...

makes me think what horrors the church is supporting, or maybe a total apathy towards aids and the treatment of the third world is what the next generations will look back at and say "how could they honestly call themselves followers of Christ?"

on an aside saw the matrix 2 last night on a IMAX 5 story high screen (oh yes) and bought some chilled out house and drum and base from local djs

sorted out for a dakka and whizz

just about finnished the house today, did a wee bit of celtic rope work above a window in carving into cement with a pointy stick :) also went to see where the new home owner, Cordilla lives currently in a much harsher bit of the township, pretty dismal, i was one of the few went and was there to take photos so i was just looking for shots not really thinking about what i was seeing, pretty heavy, no electricity or running water, corrigated iron and cardboard for walls, it doesnt get much worse....
but not feeling to bad think i will come back to capetown after the weekend and build with some americans, cause its what i feel is the plan more than just travelling for the sake of it.
met some cool students and went out with them on friday night, good craic but crap music, teenage yank rock seemed to be the standard!!!!!
later

HOUSE BUILIDING LEGEND
alright whoever is reading hope your doing well, i am having a great time here in capetown, have almost completely build a house in 4 days!!! walls roof and all hand mixing the duga or cement (granada stylee) seen and eaten osterich, also seen some truly breath takin sights and once again i find the concept of this being random evolvedness ridculous,
and as psalm 127 says "If the Lord doesnt build the house, the builders work for nothing"
later

6am come to soon these days but a least you can watch the sunrise to over the sleepy city with Dj Marky providing an awesome sound track

been increadably blessed with money in the last week, through the inland revenue and ballynahinch baptist i recieved over £600 last week !!!!!
praise the Lord, it just goes to show you can't out give God, even the tiny amout of tithin leads to bigtime blessing

take er easy