Itinerary

Hey guys, I thought you might be interested in what major projects we'll be working on and the major places we'll be working with each day...


May 13 - Fly out of Dayton at 6:04am!

May 14 - Arrive in South Africa / Spend the night in Johannesburg

May 15 - Drive to Lesotho

May 16 and 17 - Work on Roma orphan center

May 18 - Morija: Culture lecture and dinosaur footprints

May 19 - Guest lectures from National University of Lesotho (NUL) professors at Thorns

May 20 - Carnival at pediatric AIDS clinic

May 21-23 - Work at the Little Angels orphanage at Thaba Bosiu

May 24 and 25 - Ramabanta (pony trekking, cave paintings, traditional music)

May 26 - Tour of a textile factory (aka a sweat shop) and Thaba Bosiu

May 27-29 - Building a playground at a pre-school and LSC farm projects in Morija

May 30 and 31 - Working at the Children's Vilalge and Phomolong support group in Maseru

June 1 -Roma Mokete

June 2-5 - Roma orphan center / NUL lectures

June 6 - Leave for Kruger National Park for Safari

June 7-9 - Kruger

June 10 - Return Home

June 11 - Arrive back in Dayton


Peace and Love!
~jessie



PS - Kruger is home to "the big five" - Lions, African Elephants, African Buffalos, Black Rhinoceros, and Leopards. I would LOVE to be able to see a leopard!!! Though that's one of the hardest to see because even if you're lucky enough to spot one it will probably see you too and slip back into the brush.

2 Weeks!!!

I cannot believe everything is happening so fast! I have to start taking typhoid pills today... Wish me luck with that because Scott (our trip leader) has warned us that some/many of us will get sick. Really sick. But it should only lat for about a day or two so we're supposed to keep taking the pills. I think I'll treat myself to a good dinner tonight before I take my first dose, sort of a last meal of a condemned woman...

Peace and love!

Exactly 4 Weeks!

There are 3 weeks until I leave college for the summer and 4 until I fly into the wild blue yonder and land in Africa. Can you say "overwhelmed"? My goodness! Is it bad though that I'm more stressed out about leaving college for the summer? I love my friends here and I'm going to miss them like crazy! One particularly but there are so many people I'm going to miss over the summer. It's only three months away though and then I'll come back to Witt with experiences of a lifetime and will be living in the J Squared House of Dolce =)





Peace and love guys and dolls!



P.S. - This is a picture of Lesotho, while it is beautiful, it's beauty comes from devastating soil erosion due to extreme over farming. The soil in Lesotho, chemically, very closely resembles the soil taken in samples from the moon and so, like the moon, very little can grow anymore. While some families can grow enough to supplement their own diets, they can no longer farm as their main source of income, as most Basotho did historically.