This is the front of the house I was stazing at in South Africa

Actually I was staying arroud back in the shack

It is a standard issue Aparthied era abode, there are literally

millions of these arround the RSA

This is the street in the township that our house was located.
Sebenzisa Street or in English : Make it work Street

The first weekend I was in the RSA I went on a trip to the Kingdom of Swaziland
with the Gauteng Choristers. Its a beautiful country surrounded by
huge mountain ranges.

Greetings from World Cup Land!

So I have arrived in Germany. A week of traveling since I left Afrika. I'm with the sisters south east of Darmstat. I came via Frankfurt via Zurich via Rome via Johannesburg. Rome is wonderful if dreadfully hot now. Switzerland is beautiful and cool this time of year and Germany is not too bad. I go back to Rome on the 6th and back to the states on the 20th. Tommrow I go out of the convent for a trip arround Germany. A nice break from the music writing for the nuns. I will post again when I get to Rome.

Geting ready to go again

In a week my time will be up in South Africa and I will be off to Rome. I have been in touch with the sisters these past months and it would seem that there is quite a bit of work to be done that side. But there will be time to see Rome and the Vatican and there will be a trip to the convent in Germany. I'm tremendously excited.

South Africa has been intresting.
I have learned much about music here.
I have gathered the material for my next two pieces.
But at the same time some of these projects have gone quite wrong.
But that is Africa.

Right now I'm on a small vacation in Botswana visiting people but I leave for South Africa on Sunday. Then I will have a week to wrap things up there. I have to register some of my Zulu/Xhosa/Setswana music in Johannesburg so that it will be open for people to sing in SA. If things go well we will make a recording of my arrangement of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika next week. I'm also hoping to set up a few commissions that I can fulfill when I leave SA. I'm hoping to visit the Soweto String Quartet and see if we might beable to strike a deal. We shall see. At least the last few days will be productive ones.

Well, as I was typing this I tried to upload the pictures but blogger crapped out. Or rather the ISP in Africa crapped out, God knows. The internet is such a headache here. Lets just say I'll post when I get to Rome.