Check this site for all the pictures from today. No video, as those files are too big for the cafe we are in. Photos should be fully up in 30 minutes.
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Success! We have finally caught up on our backlog of blog posts, and we finally have a good number of pictures to share. Unfortunately, we have been unable to update our iWeb site, TheAfricanFile.com, so we will have to rely on our MobileMe gallery pages. As we are able to upload more, we will post the link in the sidebar on the right hand side.
Also, we have a twitter feed (afrikantraveler), that we will post more short updates to, and will allow us to post on the go easier than WordPress.
When our Youtube is set, we will post the link for the videos if you are unable to view them though MobileMe. All of our videos were shot in either 720p 60fps or 1080p, and thus we have had long waits and many errors uploading these files through wifi and broadband connections in South Africa, thus we will attempt to use Youtube as a solution.
We have just arrived at backpackers just south of Alexandra tomorrow, putting us in better position for attending the US – Slovenia game at Ellis Park on Friday. Then it’s out to Witbank for the Springbok game against Italy. Sunday will be spent preparing to make the trek south to Bloemfontein for the crucial South Africa – France game, and then right back north the following day to catch the US against Algeria in Pretoria.
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16 June
The temperatures have not improved this morning, and I deeply regret not taking Elna up on her offer of a space heater, especially after the hot water cuts out in the middle of my shower. I send Alisa (recipient of a nice long hot shower) to track down the heater, but no one is in the house, and Elna’s clinic is closed. We soon realize that it is Youth Day in South Africa, commemorating the Soweto Uprising, and as such it’s a national holiday. Having left all of our breakfast stuff in the house, and now being locked out, we’re forced to head out to find food. Since I am still on a quest for a South African track top we head to the Sandton City mall again, to see if the forecasts of more apparel coming in stock today are true.
12 June
The match up that was drawing comparisons to 1776, 1812, and 1950. To have this matchup, one with the country of my family and the country that made the biggest impact on my development as a person. Even though it was nearly 8 years to the day that I was skipping school to sneak off to watch England – Argentina at the 2002 World Cup, I remember that time vividly. That was the first World Cup game I watched in my soccer ‘enlightenment’ phase. Before that I had little concept of the world’s game, and even though I watched the ’98 final in Paris and the Euro 2000 final before that, they were simply events to be watched, not obsessed about. My time in England turned me into the person I am, soccer-wise and more. But in the following years I had reaffirmed my attachment to US Soccer, most significantly through my work as a USSF referee. And it was this match up that had consumed the media and the two publics of these countries with the ‘special relationship’.
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