YAY!

We made it safely to South Africa!!!! We landed in Johannesburg at 8:15 AM our time (we're 9 hours ahead of California). The flight was ridiculous haha we had a 5 hour flight from LAX to JFK and then a 5 hour layover in JFK then we boarded South African Airlines for a lovely 14.5 hour flight!!! I got an aisle seat, PRAISE THE LORD!!!! The flight was smooth but I definitely only got about a total of 4 hours of sleep on that flight so I watched lots of movies! When we got into Joburg we all got on a bus, went to lunch and then we got to go to a Theme Park! I would like to say that we got to do this while all of you students were in class bahaha! The park was fun, but they have crazy rides that I'm sure would not necessarily pass U.S. standards haha A couple of us went on a tube raft ride thing that takes you down the "white rapids" and it definitely got stuck. At least 4 other rafts passed us before we were able to start moving again, but the saying we've all been told to get used to is TIA (this is Africa). After the theme park we finally got to check in at our hotel and now we're just getting ready before dinner. Let me tell you, that was the most amazing shower ever!!!

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that went to the send off at APU. It meant so much to have you all there and I seriously can't express how loved I felt! And thank you to everyone for your supports, your prayers, and your thoughts! Hopefully I'll be able to update in the next couple of days, but TIA so I guess I won't really know! Love you all!!!

God bless,

Kelsey