Chatham Hall in South Africa

A few final shots, to make up for the picture-less entries and hopefully to make sure that everyone is on the blog somewhere!

Alan, our fearless guide, on Signal Hill

Laura and Kathelen with Robben Island warder Christo Brandt 
  
Lawrencia Primary School – serving food and making friends

Young friends at Scottsdene Recreation Center

Alice outside Eagle’s Rest Hospice
 
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I’ll wrap up the last two days in Cape Town with a quick overview – others may add some write-ups and photos over the next couple of days as well.
After the first day at Rondevlei (Monday), we ended a little early to take advantage of a relatively windless day to take the cable car to [...]

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Well, the trip comes to an end tomorrow, and it has been an incredible and unforgettable experience.  All my photos are available here: http://community.webshots.com/user/chughes13; anyone is welcome to look through, print, or download anything you would like.  Japan photos are there as well, but all photos from this trip are in 6 folders labeled “Cape [...]

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       We boarded the bus at 8 on Monday morning for the Rondevlei Nature Reserve not knowing what to expect.  When we got there, however, it was clear that we were in for an experience uniquely South African.  Our guide, Penny, was pleasantly eager to educate us about her career and the animals she worked [...]

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Friday was emotionally exhausting, yet it concluded with a sighting of a whale!
We spent the first part of the morning working at the Recreation Center in Bloekombos (a middle-range township—not the worst of the worst), preparing both a stew for the children to eat on Saturday morning and sandwiches to distribute on the streets to [...]

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On Saturday morning we checked out of the hotel and loaded up the bus bright and early to head to the De Hoop nature reserve. After a long and tiring four hour drive, we finally arrived and got into our rooms (wooden floors and bunk beds- it felt like we were at sleepaway camp!) to change our clothes [...]

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Greetings from South Africa!
At 5:00 Saturday morning, we awoke to leave on a four-hour bus ride into the great unknown.  After the long bus ride, we finally made it to De Hoop Nature Reserve, where we bunked girl scout-style.  We spent Saturday on a beautiful beach (on the Indian Ocean) located on the reserve and [...]

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If you are reading the blogs in order, we are sure that by this time you have read about the schools we have visited, the children, etc. However, while that is one part of the trip, the other part is the townships and disease. In addition to school children, we have visited several communities that [...]

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OK – still can’t add pictures yet, but a quick update for the last two days.  On Thursday we were back at the Recreation Center, working mostly with the day-care kids they have there: playing with them and fixing their lunch, then bagging up bread, cracker, and cookie crumbs that they take home to add [...]

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Sorry there’s been a delay in posting – the Hotel’s wireless went out!  I still can’t get many pictures up, but they’ll come as I can load them.  As you’ll see below, several students added blog sections talking mostly about the primary school where we spent most of our day.  We are working with the [...]

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