The Big Day!

September 13th

Hello to Everyone from Botswana for the first time.

I have now been in Bots for 3 full days and what a three days it has been. The flight was an adventure in itself. We left Toronto at 7pm on Saturday and then got to London at 7am in the morning GMT.

We checked our carry on luggage in a locker service and went to explore London a little bit. We rode the London Eye, we walked around the gardens and the halls of Westminster Abbey and in front of Buckingham palace.

It was pretty busy because it was the last day of the Paralympics. We got to see some of the marathon runners for the Paralympics, the wheelchair one and one or two others and a number of athletes from each. This was probably my favourite part of my time in London. Just to see every one's excitement was awesome. We then finihsed off our day with Fish and Chips in a little pub, so cliche but so good!

Part of the Marathon 

Fish and Chips!

 

Then we left London for the 10 hour flight down to Jo'burg. We has more time to wait in the airport but we got to meet up with the girls from Malawi so that was nice to see them. Then we left for the short 40 minute flight to Gaborone and luckily we made it with all our baggage and everything.



We spent 48 hours travelling from the time we left Toronto to the time that we arrived in Gaborone ( which i found out is actually pronounced hab-a ron-e(with an accent). So that was exhausting but we tried to beat the jet lag and it worked pretty well.

Botswana has been very good and interesting since we arrived. We are staying with a family while we are in Gaborone, the mom is a Canadian who used to volunteer here and now works and married a man from down here and has the two cutest kids ever. She actually works at the WUSC office and is helping to ease the transition.

Anyways I will update more on day to life so, I just thought I would give people the low-down on my time so far. We have one more full day of Orientation and then on Friday we start our journey up to Shakawe, which should be an adventure in itself.

When ever we mention where we are going to be staying, people are always like, "way out there?!?!?" " why would you go so far away? Good luck" or they just laugh, so that encouraging :P . I can only predict what the future holds, so I will for sure keep everyone posted.



Thanks for reading :)

- Kelsey

My wonderful friends who came to say bye at the ariport :) <3