Hi everyone! This time tomorrow I will already be on my journey to South Africa and wanted to write to everyone before I took off. After a 16-hour flight to Dubai, an 8-hour layover (unfortunately not at a prime venturing-out-of-the-airport time), and another 10-hour flight, I will finally arrive in Cape Town on Sunday morning, where I will be for the next two months.
I'm volunteering with an organization called International Volunteer Headquarters (IVHQ), which has volunteer programs all over the world and partners with a local organization in each country. In South Africa, the organization is the South African Student Travel Services (SASTS).
I originally wanted to volunteer in a school the entire summer, but since it's their winter vacation, I will be working on two different projects. For the first three weeks, I will be volunteering at a Pre-Primary School that caters to students around ages 2-6 before they enter Primary School. For the next three weeks, I will be at a crèche (daycare center), working with kids of the same ages. After that, I will return to the school for my last two weeks. The whole two months I will be staying about 45 minutes outside of Cape Town in a small town called Mamre with a host family. The pre-primary school and crèche are both in Mamre, but I will be free to traipse around Cape Town on the weekends with other volunteers in the area.
Since this is my first international trip (quite the opposite of Cerianne), I’m not sure what to expect, but there’s one thing I know for sure: HP 7 Pt. 2 premiers TWO DAYS before it does in the US and doesn’t premier in Botswana at all, so I already have one step up on Cerianne.
I’ll post more describing what I’m doing/where I’m staying once I get there and know more. For now, if you happen to have any suggestions for what to do on a plane for 26 hours (besides read the only two books I’m bringing with me), let me know!
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