Greetings from South Africa

Well I know everybody is anxious to know how I'm doing, what I'm doing and wondering where are the pictures? Well give me some time on the pictures please, it cost money to upload things on the web, until I can learn a way to make my photos smaller to upload, I'll upload some.

Well I survive my 20 + hours of travel to South Africa. Unfortunately I didn't get much sleep the last night in Akron, after waking up just after 3am to drive to the Harrisburg, Airport, for the start of three flights that day. My first two flights were really short, but my last flight was 15 hrs long. And unfortunately again I got little sleep during the 15 hr flight. We arrived at in Jo'burg 9:15 Sunday Morning. I think I got somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 hrs of sleep. Once arriving at our B&B for the day, we refreshed our selves, including doing a little head dive into the wall after tripping over Felicia's bags, we joined our country reps James and Joan Alty for a light lunch.

The rest of the day we toured around Soweto and Kliptown, including going to Nelson Mandela's first owned house. The next couple of days we toured and visited different museums, such as Freedom Park and The VoorTrekker Monument in Pretoria, and The Apartheid Museums in Jo'burg. It is so great to be able to visit these places, especially after reading books about the history.

If you are still wondering what my first impression of South Africa is, it is very brown and dry. Spring doesn't start until Sept 1st. Security is very important and homes are gated and locked at all times with barb wire attached to the tops of the fences surrounding homes. The people are very friendly, and even like to be included in photo's. The mornings and evening are really cool and it warms up in the afternoon. I'm am thankful for bringing my yellow jacket! The scenery is very beautiful especially the 6 hr drive from Jo'burg to Pietermartizburg! I wish I could attach photo's of the drive on here, but I need to work on making the photo file size smaller.
Anyways signing off in Zulu,
Sala Khle