Destination- South Africa

I woke up to say goodbye to the Paraguay team Sunday morning at 5:30. When we arrived here in August, I don't think anyone really realized how hard it would be to say goodbye at the end of the month. After a tearful goodbye, everyone went back to bed. Next we said goodbye to england around 10 O'clock. At noon, it was South Africa's turn to leave. we drove to the airport, checked our bags, and were about to go through security, when a couple from Anna's church stopped us. They took us to the foodcourt, and bought us deep dish pizza (we were in chicago, we had to have some...).

then we flew to amsterdam, where we had a three hour layover, kind of boring.

then we flew to Johannesburg (during which time I watched the new star trek movie, as well as several comedic tvshows), where we discovered that we didn't have the money we were supposed to have transferred to our account, so we couldn't afford to go to the guest house where we were supposed to spend our 8 hour layover. so we had to spend the night in the Johannesburg Airport, which was exhausting (I think I had the most sleep at an hour and 45 minutes).

then we flew from there to Pietermaritzburg where we were picked up by Christine, and driven to her house where we met her husband Phil, they are the Mennonite Mission Network Workers here in south africa. They then took us to the Manse, the house where we will be staying for our 10 months. That night they hosted a braai (it means roasted meat in afrikaans, it's like a barbecue, but with just meat). and we met the staff of breakthru church international, where we will be posted.

We were exhausted from our 3 days of traveling, and when we got back to the manse, we slept untill 2 in the afternoon the next day.