A Greeting from South Africa

After around 26 hours of traveling and a 17 1/2 hour flight the whole team is staff and sound in South Africa. Everything about this Country is beautiful! I guess the romance of it all will wear off sooner or later. It's so nice to be in a country that uses Celsius and Kilometers for starters. I can actually tell you what the temperature is and know what it means! (at the moment it's 26 degrees) Today is our day of rest to fight off the jet lag before we start training tonight and all of tomorrow and the next day. On the day after that next day we will be traveling to Pomfret and stay there until mid November. I have added two more blogs to Youtube but it's so hard to get them uploaded at all that I will not be putting all of them on the blog. To see all my vlog videos y'all (a term I'm picked up from the Americans on my team) will have to go to my youtube channel. you can find my youtube channel by typing "chewieImaon" into the youtube search or by using this link: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChewieImaon 

The October 4th Update

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=em-upload_owner&v=AZJ199XXGC0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAZJ199XXGC0%26feature%3Dem-upload_owner

Another vlog. This ones longer than most. I did this one last night and today is my last full day in North America for 84 days or something like that. Hope you enjoy the update.

The Tour of the House

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=no9TRxmoqHY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dno9TRxmoqHY%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_playerhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=no9TRxmoqHY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dno9TRxmoqHY%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

Day 2 in Fort Wayne

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4W-VcZxFE&feature=c4-feed-u

Here it is! A video straight from Fort Wayne, Indian (not Illinois) hope you enjoy feel free to leave a comment about what you want to hear about. Sadly the video will not upload so you'll have to click a button to see it, work I know but it's SO worth it! ;)

35 days till departure.

So I've discovered I'm not much clearer in explaining things over video either.  Oh well. So the communities I mentioned are Olievenhoutbosch and Pomfret. Another thing I forgot to say in the video is that when in Olievenhoutbosch I will have access to Internet once a week so I'll be able to keep you updated but while in Pomfret Internet access will be rather limited so you won't hear from me all that often. Also just to clarify on the part of the video I thought was most unclear in Olievenhoutbosch we will be staying with host families outside of the squatter. The reason why we are living outside of the squatter because of the dangers that are inside of the squatter camp. And other thing to clarify we will start out in the States for a few days then go to South Africa, spend about 4 weeks in Olievenhoutbosch, about 4 weeks in Pomfret, a few days back in the Olievenhoutbosch area, a few days in the States and finally home on the 20th of December. Also I realize that a hospice is not an old age home, oops. Oh and for all those wondering it will be a 20 hour flight to South Africa.  

The first of the Vlogs

Here it is the first of the vlogs...Hopefully this is better than my writing :)

Making Connections

Today my team and I had our first conference call and it was great! I'm so excited to get to meet these people in person because hopefully it won't be so awkward. I feel like when your on the phone and can't see the people's faces it's much harder to tell when people are going to talk, therefore less overlapping voices and awkward "wait for it" pauses. Anyways, got A LOT of information about where we'll be going and what we need to have prepared before we South Africa. Most of the info we were told was about travel and medical stuff. So far their are 10 people on my team, 7 girls, 3 boys. We're all coming for different walks of life, there are 2 married couples coming, a few people taking a semester off from college and others coming straight from high school. In 59 days I'll be leaving and get to meet them all in person and I can't wait! But while I'm waiting I'm keeping busy by babysitting 40 hours a week and working on becoming a certified Lifeguard. In the next few days I plan to book my airplane tickets to and from Fort Wayne. I'll be leaving on the 29th of September and coming back on the 20th of December. That's an 82 day adventure!
More to come when more happens