I rode the train for the first time this week to go into town and buy a phone card. Was it ever an experience! I have never seen so many people pack into one train, but not even just the cars! On top, in-between cars, and hanging off the edges, for miles! We the train stopped in front of me and the doors opened, hundreds of people flooded out, it didn't seem to end! Women were screaming bloody murder as they were trampled and children were mindlessly pushed out of the way.

A friend of mine here has a car and that doesn't seem to me much safer than the train. She picked me up for church last Sunday evening and we headed into Cape Town. People drive crazy here! No one stops at stop signs because it is common for their windows to be punched out and to be robbed in just that short time. It is intense!