Less Than One Week

We have less than one week before we take off for South Africa. Today we had a conference call with Ileana, our volunteer coordinator, and three of the other volunteers who will be with us in South Africa. We do not have our placements yet and we hope to know what we are going to be doing prior to our departure. Cross Cultural Solutions is really well organized, so we have great confidence in this organization.


We will be going into winter in the Southern Hemisphere, so our days will be shorter with the sun setting before 6 pm. We also need to take raingear as this is the rainy season in South Africa. It is not monsoon type rain, probably more like San Francisco in the winter type rain.



Although we do not know our specific placements yet, we did find out that we will be working in townships which means, I am sure, that during our stay in South Africa we will be exposed to the extremes of South African society. We will live in one of two home bases with other volunteers some of whom will already have been in country for a few weeks. We arrive on the 19th in Cape Town and will spend the first night at a B & B and then make our way to the home base on the 20th to check in and get situated and continue to rest up. Orientation begins on Sunday morning and takes up all of Sunday and Monday and we begin our placements on Tuesday.



We are looking forward to the great opportunity this venture presents to us. We will try to be faithful about updating the blog.