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After Sunday mass the next morning, Adelaide picked me up to go to her friend's
farm and have a picnic lunch. We walked around the property for a long time in the fresh
airandtheonlysoundsIcouldhearwereourvoices.Wethenvisitedanotherfriend'shouse
that sat on a 2000-acre game reserve.
I had a reality check the next day. I met Mr. Smuts from Sentral High School who
didn't want me to speak at his school. His response was, “Maybe next time.” “How about
nextyear?”Isarcastically thought.Imustadmitthatitwasahumblingexperiencetobere-
jectedlikethat.Itcertainlytookmedownacoupleofnotches.IguessIwassousetobeing
invited that I thought “Why wouldn't you want me?” In retrospect, I should have thanked
him.
The following day I went to speak at St. Andrew's School and was warmly wel-
comed. At the end of my talk to the students I joined the staff for lunch. Allan Priest, one
of the teachers, approached me during our meal and asked me if I wanted to go camping
in the Drakensberg Mountains on the weekend. I immediately said yes. I returned to the
house and waited for Mrs. Uzbeck to take me to a high school debate. Co-incidentally, all
the schools I previously gave presentations to had students there, so many students came
up to me to say hello.
My next school was St. Joseph's Christian Brothers College where I gave two
presentations.BeforeIleft,oneoftheteachers,VinceDoly,gavemeDerekJohnson'scon-
tact information and told me that he worked in the shipping industry in Port Elizabeth. He
alsosaidthatDerekcouldpossiblyhelpmegetfreepassagetoSouthAmerica. Iwasready
to burst with excitement.
That evening, after dinner with Carin's family, we went to visit her university's
medicallabwhereshestudied.Shesnuckmeinandboywasitdisturbing.Therewereparts
of cadavers sitting on the tabletops with many having skin missing to reveal the muscles
and tendons. It was also depressing because I couldn't help but view these cadavers as hu-
man beings who were all unclaimed at the hospitals and morgues. How did each of these
people end up sitting on a cold tabletop at the university lab? What was their life story?
Wherewastheirfamily? Didtheirfamilyevenknowwhathappened?Don'tgetmewrong,
I understand the invaluable contribution these cadavers make to medical research and edu-
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