Johannesburg!!!!

Yesterday we arrived in Johannesburg at about 5:30pm after a long 17 hours of flight time, including a lovely stop in Dakar, Senegal at 5am. We are staying at a really nice guest house called St. Peters Place in Rotensville which is part of Johannesburg. Johannesburg is a huge city, we are staying in South East Jo-burg. This area used to be a predominately white area but the neighborhood is changing a lot.
One thing I learned very quickly is that greetings are very important here. I was scolded at the airport for asking where the atms' were without first saying hello and asking how the person was. It is kind of nice because its a way of connecting more and taking the time to slow down and say hello, that you don't often find in the US.

Today we went to Soweto, and tomorrow we will be in Soweto as well, so I will continue to write and post again either in 3 days or after the weekend home stays, when I will write about my experience today and tomorrow and post my pictures as well, because the internet is very slow here, so posting pictures isn't completely possible. 
Cass

Pre-Departure (One Day)

So I leave tomorrow for Johannesburg, where I will spend about ten days, before I go to Namibia for the rest of the semester. 




My contact info for Namibia is below:

my house number in Namibia: 011-264-61- 250-737

My mailing address while there is:

Cassie Valukas

c/o Center for Global Education

P.O Box 21377

Windhoek, Namibia

Send me postcards.

If you want to call just for fun, email me first so we can set up a time (so that I know Ill be available and vice versa with the time difference).

Love you all,

Cass

Pre-Africa (One Week)

Hey everyone,


I have a week to go before I leave for Africa, but I wanted to try out a post because I am very new at the blog thing and I want make sure I have everything ready for when I actually get to Africa. I am so excited, but I still have so much to do. 


Talk to everyone in a week!