Owen's Post on Poor White in South Africa

OWEN'S POST ABOUT POOR WHITES IN SA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj0HdW2iDs

Owen (my partner) wrote about a you tube video that is called "Poor Whites - South Africa" it is about the white people in south africa who have become poor. They say they are poor because the goverment is dicriminating against them, giving black people priority for jobs. I just wanted to add that the people that were interviewed say that they "send you back and never hear from them again" reffering to emploiers. This video is something that is new to me. i have never heard of the whites in SA being poor. Allso i would like to add that i showed owen this video.

Distillation, THE SOLUTION

After reading my partners (Alex's) blog post on distillation (which you can find here) I decided to write how our distillation machine is going to work. We have two containers, container A and B. Container A will be filled with infected water which will be distilled and B will be filled with regular water to condense the water vapor that will be traveling through it. Container A will have two resistors inside of it that are connected to a motorcycle battery. (the battery will be shorting making the resistors get very hot, hot enough to boil water). At the top of container A there is a tube connected to it for the stream to pass from A to Container B. Once the vapor has left A and is in the tube it travels to container B, condenses in B and then exits B as pure water that is drinkable.

I found a video that changed my perspective on what South Africa looks like. At first I thought of South Africa as a less advanced place with little roads and a couple of cities that had sky scrapers but now I can see that South Africa is pretty similar to a lot of places in South America and some places in the US. This video shows parts of a city in South Africa and parts of the open terrain.

You can watch this videos here:

The Real South Africa

South Africa Redo

A couple days ago I was doing some research and found a really helpful timeline done on South Africa. You can find this timeline here.
This timeline starts with information on the 4th century and is continued to this day. It skips to the head lines of different years. For example one headline tell of how they found diamond in a city in SA and another tells of war.

South Africa more info!

Population
46,923,000

Capital
Pretoria (administrative); 1,209,000—Bloemfontein (judicial), 381,000; Cape Town (legislative); 3,103,000

Area
1,219,090 square kilometers
(470,693 square miles)

Language
Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu

Religion
Christian, indigenous beliefs, Muslim, Hindu

Currency
rand

Life Expectancy
53

GDP per Capita
U.S. $10,000

Literacy Percent
86


"South Africa, Africa's southernmost nation, is also Africa's largest and most developed economy. Diamond and gold strikes in the late 19th century began transforming this land of African tribespeople, Boer farmers, and British traders into an industrial colossus. Today South Africa produces high-tech equipment and is a world leader in the output of gold and diamonds. On South Africa's high grassland plateau, or veld, lies its premier city, Johannesburg (usually shortened to Jo'burg). Johannesburg and its satellite cities are home to more than 8 million people—generating 9 percent of all economic activity in Africa."

Information from this link.

Interview Reflection

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We had the interview on September 8^th. We met at a coffee shop called the living room which is in Point Loma and is very close to high tech high. After arriving we searched for a mystery man name Erin Wicomb at the time we had no idea of what to look for to find him so we just asked a few people if they were Erin on our third attempt we succeeded. We greeted and chose a table to conduct our interview. At first it felt a little award asking Erin questions about his life but after the first couple questions it was clear that Erin has a great personality and is a really nice guy.

Erin jumped right in and told us how he grew up in Cape Town, a large city in South Africa. His parents are divorced so he grew up with his mom, and his sister. He told us how his father is African and his mother is British. Erin emphasized on how racially divers South Africa is he kept telling us about if you were black you could do certain things that the whites could and if you were white you couldn't do the same things that blacks do. Even as a child Erin could not do certain things in the private school that he went to.

One thing that I though was very interesting is when he told us what the South African flag represented. The Black part of the flag represents the black population. The gold represents the wealth of the land, the natural resources. The white represents how the whites dominate South Africa. The red is the blood of the wars in South Africa and the blue is for the water and the sky.

He told us about how he loves the United States because there is no fear. He spoke about being very happy living in San Diego but he also said that there is no culture in San Diego. There is no art that is only made in San Diego that represent San Diego and there is no enthusiasm for just being a part of San Diego. He also emphasized that traveling is the most important thing someone can do in there life. He has been allover the world and he said, “if you want to grow as a person you need to travel” and I truly believe him.

The interview turned out to be a lot of fun actually and very very interesting I am happy that we did this. It was much more exciting than I though it was going to be. I am just pleased that I was given a chance to meat a really good guy.

In conclusion, I think that I could have done a better job at organizing the questions but it went much better than expected. This was the first interview that I have ever been a part of so it was quite exciting. We got a lot of information and now have a much better grip on South African culture. Overall this was very useful and we couldn't have done it better.

South Africa.

Today I did some research on South Africa and found some helpful websites with a lot of information about South Africa.

Here they are:

http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/history.htm
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/chronology.htm
http://www.info.gov.za/aboutsa/history.htm
http://www.workmall.com/wfb2001/south_africa/south_africa_history_index.html
http://www.saha.org.za/saha.htm?saha/noticeboard_archive.htm
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsahistory.html