Wednesday, December 14, 2011

We're Going on Vacation

Merry Christmas, everybody! And Happy New Year! We know Christmas is still over a week away, and we haven’t lost track of the world that much. But in terms of wishing everyone happy holidays, this is our last chance. We leave this week on our vacation to Mozambique and Swaziland. To say that we are excited is an understatement. Come Sunday, we will be lounging on the pristine beaches of Mozambique for the next week or so. On our way back to South Africa we’re stopping off for a couple days in the tiny kingdom (yes, kingdom) of Swaziland. After that, we’ll be ringing in the new year with several other volunteers from our group in one volunteer’s village. All in all, we won’t be back here at our site until the beginning of 2012.

We are also excited because once we get back here we will, hopefully, become very busy with projects. We’ll have a few days to catch up on sleep before the new school year begins, and we’re optimistic about being able to help out at the primary school. Last week we attended the end of year ceremony for the primary school that included graduations for kindergarten and Grade 7 (high school begins in Grade 8 here). The principal seems to really like us (he gave Matt a 6-pack of Heineken out of the blue), so things are looking good at the school.

Well anyway, we won’t be posting anything here for several weeks. Happy holidays!

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