Got back from the best trip of my entire life yesterday. yes, no joke, it was the BEST!!! Im still processing everything from the trip, just trying to get my thoughts together so i can tell you all what happened without leaving anything out!!! but thats not possible. So much stuff happened, its so hard to fully explain the impact of this trip and everything that happened to my team and I so the solution to that problem is for you to take a trip to South Africa. Do it. You will not regret it!!!
ANywhooo!!! Ive decided to blog about each day individually instead of trying to cram it all into one post! that would just be ridiculous and i would end up writing like a whole book!! so day by day posting seems better to me!!! today ill just start with introducing the trip and maybe the first 3 days since it was just traveling pretty much!
The team consisted of 13 people from my church's Nation2Nine college/young adults group. (4 guys and 9 girls) Will and Leslie Alyea were our amazing leaders for the trip! Thats the team and the kiddos we did VBS with. Miss them soooooo stinkin much!!!
we left AZ on June 2 and arrived back home June 13. The organization we worked with down in South Africa is called Helping Hands in Africa. ( i will tell you more about them later on!! they are fantastic!!)
June 2nd and 3rd were basically traveling days. We didnt actually arrive in South Africa until the 4th. CRAZY! So our flight left phoenix at like 7:30ish i think, had a 9-10hr flight to London. Watched the movie Yogi Bear on the plane, sooooo cute!!! As i was getting off the plane, the flight attendant said "Cherrio!" haha totally made my day(: then had like an 8hr layover in the London airport. was only supposed to be about 6 but our flight got canceled and we ended up leaving for Johannesburg around 9pm instead of 7pm. sooooo boring!! found out that Americans are not well liked by some people lol oh well!!! once our flight finally left, i watched Ringo! It was alright, cussed a lot for being a kids movie! after that movie i still had like 8 1/2 hours to kill so i watched tv and listened to music. tried to sleep but i couldnt get comfortable! was so sick of being on a plane!! Arrived in Johannesburg, SA around 11am on the 4th. Got our bags then loaded up the trailer and the van and drove about an hour then stopped for lunch with the Tessendorfs (thats who runs Helping Hands) did a lil bit of shopping! got some pretty sweet stuff!!!(: then got back in the vans and drove about 2 more hours to Mafikeng. unloaded the luggage, got situated, had some yummy dinner then team time and off to bed! and thats all for now! tomorrow will bring on the next days events!!! so stay tuned!! you dont wanna miss it(; seriously! im just getting started!! it just gets better and better with each day! (:
p.s. time difference in South Africa is 9hrs. (ahead of us) in London its 8hrs.
peaces!
-em
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