Observations of SA after 5 and a half months away from home.

1.  I always thought that South Africa was a really big place.... Bwahahahahahaha.
2. South Africans are rather serious about life/the weather et al.
3. We live in a third world country but I was brought up as a first world citizen. 
4. Living in a third world country means that we have tremendous poverty.  It's not found in all other parts of the world.
5. South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. (Google it.)
6. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world. (ditto.)
7. South Africans are afraid of one another.  We spend alot of time and energy on making sure that we are all nice and seperate.
8. South Africa has a tremendous shortage of policeman and traffic officers, and the ones that we have don't get paid enough and alot of them are corrupt or traumatised by their job.
9. South Africans drive like assholes.
10. There is no place like Africa, no matter how you slice it.
11. It's going to take a couple of generations for SA to get over the pain and anger that comes with our history.
12. White South Africans are holding on to their identity for dear life.  It's time consuming and takes alot of energy.  I'm one of them.
13. There is no other place in the world that could possibly compare with SA.  It's a unique place filled with wonderful people.  It's a country on the cusp of something big.