my highway to zion

I will never forget my first year in SA!  It was such a beautiful and sharp learning curve for my naïveté.  Most afternoons were spent at kids club in Capricorn, and I began learning Afrikaans...mostly through songs.  One in particular, called "fire on the mountain" made all the kids go wild. "There's a fire on the mountain, RUN RUN RUN RUN!! Daars a feer op de berg, HARLOOP HARLOOP HARLOOP HARLOOP!!" (Please excuse the spelling which is wrong I'm sure!) ...we sang it on repeat and all the kids would run around like wild animals, burning energy so they could sit still for the Bible study to come. Well, that song is popular for a reason, and that reason is fires on the mountain are a real thing here in SA.  Today as I walked home from a late day at work, I noticed smoke and helicopters toward my flat,  I got there to see that the mountain behind our house is on fire!  About 15 little fires burning out of control. Our flat is the top right doors and windows.