Thursday 3 Dec

We got an early start this morning as we have alot of contacts to meet up with. Our first stop is in Ratanda, as we suspected, when we arrived there was no one around. We called our first contact to find out what was happening, she wasn't coming. typical. However Poppy Mofokeng was on her way, while we waited we made a few calls to a list of recommended participants for our Vuvuzela & Makarapa workshop, not as easy as it should be! The language barrier remains one of our biggest obstacles. We managed to secure 10 people from different municipalities. Still waiting for Poppy and 27 mins before we have to leave. We have a schedule to keep. We carried on with a few more calls. When she arrived (with 10 minutes to spare) we gave her a hand filling out her forms, but couldn't stay much longer. We'll be meeting with her next week to assess her bussiness in more detail. Our next mission was to find Spark Gallery in Norwood, what a mission!! Even with our handy little GPS we drove around,hot,impatient,lost for at least an hour! Tempers flaring, we even told our poor GPS what we thought of her! When we finally arrived at our destination we where met by Mthunzi (deputy official for Gauteng provincial government) and Sharon (Neosho) we had a look around the gallery spaces available, its more like an arty warehouse, the kind of space we'd like on a permanent basis but unfortunately it's being used by government for the carnival. Once we confirmed that we could use the gallery temporarily for our workshop, our meeting was pretty much over. After it was arranged that we'd all meet for lunch sometime in the future (the beers persuaded Mthunzi) myself and Hanolet went through to TG print in Spartan to collect keyrings and stickers for the products, not all the keyrings where finished and some that where completed weren't really what we'd hoped for,so, they agreed to re-do them at no cost! Then it was a quick drive to Kempton Park where i was picked up by Sharon and Jess and time to head home!! Traffic,extreme heat,getting lost and driving around all day has kinda killed my mood,can't wait to find my bed and crash! later..