Well, I am off to Africa for a month of teaching, travel, adventure and fun.
I leave Monday the 11 from Portland
I arrive some 24 hours later in Johannesburg were I will spend the night and catch a flight the following afternoon to Kigali. Tamera Farris from the scrap book project will join me. The following several days will be spent in Goma Congo, doing some trainning at New Hope center and supporting our only Dougy Center trained center in Africa. They are working with children orphaned by war, AIDS and generalized poverty. They are also helping child soldiers and training widowed mother needing to support themselves and their children. Hopefully the earthquakes and war will hold off while I am there.
I will spend a day in Kigili Rwanda visiting with a school that works with orphaned children as a result of the ethnic cleansing. It should be an interesting day.
It is then off to South Africa where I will arrive in Durban and head off for a 4 day safari and wet land tour. My good friend and travel buddy Jacqui will join me for the rest of the trip.
On our retun to Durban I will do a one day training at McCord Hospital. They are working with AIDS patients. Many are children and many are the parents of children who will soon be orphaned. The following day I will be at Lilly of theValley orphanage for another full day training with those working with the children.
From there we are off to spend a night in a Zulu village, a 3 day safari at Kruger Game Park and the to Cape Town.
In Cape Town we will do some sight seeing, see the tip of the world, penguins, cheetahs and other incredible sights yet to be determined. I will visit with a child berevement center there to see what they are doing.
The Home! It doesn't seem like I will be gone a month but count the days.
I hope to be sharing pictures and adventures for all of you so you too can join me on this adventure.
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4 comments:
Hi Joan!
Can't wait to hear your stories and hope you do indeed post photos! What an amazing month you have planned, just incredible. Hope you return with a big fat journal full of words, drawings, ephemera. Have the time of your life and be safe.
This is the best! Your having this amazing experience...and I get to ride along! Can't wait to know what happens to "us" next -
thinking of you!!!
Oh my--President Bush huh? Well, don't let that spoil what sounds like a wonderful trip so far! And what a rewarding trip it sounds like you're having! Thanks for letting us tag along in this format!
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