have my own room....and bathroom...no frogs or Mosquitos....no singing
and dancing of Zulu songs....no power outages....I am not being
electrocuted every time that I shower...and I have access to foods
that are not all white on color and made from some sort of corn product.
I am in a part of Johannesburg called Melville. I arrived here
yesterday with two of the girls who were also volunteers...jodi and
aly. Both of them are camp directors so you can imagine that we got
along pretty well.
Aly left for England today and jodi left for cape town. So, this is
actually my first night alone since arriving! Tomorrow I am going to
Bloemfontein to visit an old camp friend and then I changed my plans
so that I fly back here on Friday and meet up with jodi. We are going
on safari together. Super excited to have somebody to go with!!
I am typing on an itouch so it would take me hours to write all about
the camp experience. I will have to do that in person... Which will
also make it much more entertaining. Suffice it to say that I have no
regrets at all. But, I was definitely ready to be done and I don't
know what I would have done if there had not been other international
volunteers there with me. There were some seriously strange
moments....interesting ones....frustrating ones...
There was constant singing and dancing. There were many times of
cluelessness as I was surrounded by people speaking Zulu. But, these
kids were incredible and camp definitely provided a life changing
experience for them. It was unbelievable to be a part of it.
I hope that you are all having a healthy holiday season!!
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