July 6
Hi everybody!
I made it to Africa safely, and the flights were good. We arrived right around bedtime and so experienced almost no jetlag. The team is really awesome, I love all the guys. And the girls are amazing too. Almost everyone is an athlete, and so most of our free time they spend working out, or playing a game. We have had some sweet ultimate frisbee, football, kickball, and soccer games. Right now we are working on team building exercises and evangelism training. On Monday the real work starts. We are staying at Sizanani village, I think that they have a website you can look up. Most of our work will be done there, but as they do a lot of outreach in Pretoria and the surrounding region we will get to travel outside of the compound. The "village" is gated and walled around and it feels safe - the only problem would be petty crime. Pretoria is a big city - right now I'm on the sixth floor of an enormous mall - it feels weird; but our guide said that this is as much Africa as the mud huts.
I am keeping a journal though which I plan to post on my blog when I get back for you to read.
The epiphanies, rants, wonderings, and events in the life of a former student of Petra Academy, now at Caltech.
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- Richard Gianforte
- Bozeman, Montana, United States
- I am currently attending Caltech in Pasadena, though I will always be an alum of Petra Academy.
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions