This post is mainly going to be a general update pre-departure and hopefully one of the last I write without photos of Africa in it somewhere!
Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to my JustGiving page and helped me raise the £250 that will make such a difference to learners in South Africa.
I found out recently that I will be teaching in Kwa Bhekilanga Secondary School - Don't worry if you cannot pronounce or spell that, I'm not even convinced my pronunciation is correct!
From what I can gather the extra-curricula activities they specialise in are football (which I suck at) and debate (which I'm actually fairly decent at). It also seems that where the school has some land, they are in the middle of building Alex's first rugby grounds and an eight-lane athletics stadium for use by the community!
On our weekends off in Johannesburg, we are going to be spending some time visiting Constitution Hill, which is the location of the Constitutional Court of South Africa as well as The Old Fort Prison where activists opposed to apartheid where held, as well as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in 1906 and 1962 respectively.
We will also be watching a football game between the Kaizer Chiefs and the Orlando Pirates, a match known as the Soweto Derby.
We will also be visiting the Apartheid Museum as well as going on Safari in the Mankwe Game Reserve, which is on the border with Botswana.
It seems appropriate at this point to mention that I successfully managed to complete the National Three Peaks Challenge in a time of 28 hours and 30 minutes. Although slower that the target time of 24 hours, this was a respectable time seeing that, where quite a few members of our team suffered from prior injuries, our nickname was Team A&E.
As a final message to people wishing to book trains to Heathrow: Prepare for some face-palming as at no point do the trains and buses that run there make any sense whatsoever!
That's all for now! See you in South Africa!
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