Vuvuzela

You may have heard about the vuvuzelas from the news. They are long plastic "horns" that produce a deafening noise, most often associated with soccer in South Africa. When watching a World Cup match on a tv, you can here the constant drone of the hundreds (probably thousands) of vuvuzelas in the arena.

It doesn't stop there. People have been blowing vuvuzelas all over the city, and hardly a minute goes by that I don't hear the noise of a distant - or not so distant - vuvuzela; the noise is the equivalent of a car horn being pressed for a good few seconds. When one vuvuzela goes off, it is usually met with a response from another vuvuzela somewhere close enough to answer the call (and "close enough" can be anywhere up to a mile away; they're really that loud).

My office is very nice: roomy, lots of light, I have a window that looks out onto the courtyard of the Diakonia Centre. My office, however, seems to be pointed in the perfect direction for a day-long vuvuzela concert.

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