The Next Big Adventure: South Africa!
AAAAHHHHH! I'm so excited! My travel bug has been satiated yet again - and this time, I'm going to...
SOUTH AFRICA!!!
The only tiny negative drawback is that I'll miss 3 milestones with family and friends in the States:
- My dad's birthday
- New Year's
- My and, obviously, my twin sister's birthday!
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| An authentic South African ice cream truck! |
So here's the deal: I'll be in South Africa for 2 weeks this winter, studying the issues of gender equality, youth empowerment, and HIV/AIDS in the context of ubuntu, a community-centered approach that focuses on the interrelationships among people.
Yeah, doesn't that sound so much better than freezing my butt off in DC, standing on top of a car, scraping chunks of snow off so that I can drive around at 10 mph on roads that never got rock-salted!?!?!?
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| Snowmageddon |
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| Maybe these kids will let me ride their bikes so I can keep up with training? |
I could start packing today, I'm that excited! I wrote an overflowing-with-exclamation-marks letter to the Poynter Endowment Fund, thanking them for my big surprise grant for travel expenses! I mean, who doesn't love the gift of grant money!?!?
That's my big news! What's yours?!?!
