hour hike, just to hang out, and
then we’d walk all the way back.
Friday and Saturday nights
we’d walk to the mall and hang out.
The Balfour Park Shopping Mall
was a few blocks from my house.
It’s not a big mall, but it has
everything—an arcade, a cinema,
restaurants, South Africa’s version
of Target, South Africa’s version of
the Gap. Then, once we were at the
mall, since we never had any money
to shop or watch movies or buy
food, we’d just wander around
inside.
One night we were at the mall
and most of the shops were closed,