Our trip to South Africa was filled with funny, serious, intense, challenging, exciting moments...everything I could have possibly gained from this Global Seminar was achieved and surpassed. So many simple things I will miss and remember, so lets reflect everyone :)
-Walking to pick n' pay to get grocceries (for most that ended up being everyday!)
-Having iced coffee in the morning after realizing that it wasn't...ok really wasn't....tasteful drinkning it just black.
-House 7's small kitchen table that was filled with all of us every morning
-Being blessed to get an AMAZING view of Table Mountain every morning, I mean who honestly gets to wake up walk down their driveway and look at a mountain in the distance everyday. That's a blessing that never got old
-Derek is quite sassy! haha (along with Greg....ok and I guess me a little bit!)
-Ellen won the Mortal Combat fight against Derek
-The sun here is seriously no joke...one minute you are soaking it all in the next your stomache looks like a tomatoe
-The vans here are made for 12 but I'd say can seat 20
-Imagine 20 people in the van first....then 20 people singing in the van together (we were quite musical during the trip)
-Every topic can somehow come back to Justin Bieber :) haha
-Apparently I was called a rabbit since I can eat raw veggies plain?
-The exit signs in South Africa are a picture guy running...clearly you need to be in a rush when you leave a premisis
-Aquello and Bonaqua water = pop....best sparkling water ever
- Interstudy people are amazing!
- We had awesome van drivers (especially Brown sugar with his strobe light!)
- Delta 4.....enough said..so glad they joined us in Cape Town eventually
-Charles from Interstudy had some phrases we all will be using back at the states....so don't think its too weird if we say things like "Doooooootz, my girl, my man, chyaaa, and you're on point" along with common phrases like "Howz it? cheers, and pleasure"
-You really can go three weeks on a trip without having your Smartphone attached to your hip
-I am going to miss playing snake on the nokia phone we were given
-Kelly can make awesome animal noises
-Ellen would be happy to show you her gun dance anytime
-Having free wii fi at one of the houses made it quite a hot comodity at night for facebook, emailing and skype.
-Lemons here are actually green, not yellow
-Anthony, Greg and Nate love their drums they bought here and are quite talented at playing them
- Noodles and toast become quite a common meal choice...cooking extravagent meals was too much work!
- The fresh fruit was so so so so so so so so so so so yummy!!
- Megan can't handle a toaster...she'll put a cheesy mini pizza in one. That didn't go over too well
- Due to matching outfits one day, Derek, Aurora and I called ourselves "the family"
-Traveling for 24 hours to get to our destination was definately worth it
-Joe Bergs is the best place ever
- Charissa's famous quotes...."RESPECT YOURSELF" and of course "LOOK AT YOUR LIFFFFFFFE"
-South African people can dance and sing extrememly well..they are so musically talented
-Once Christina starts crying...everyone will follow
-Mini buses aren't as intimidating and scary as they seem....."Cape Town??"
-All members of this group brought forth inspiration, reflections and experiences that I have learned from
-Who knew it would be so hard to say goodbye
- I will be back in Cape Town again someday
- I am proud to say I beleive we formed our own community. We shared vulnerabilities, hurt, frustration together along with extreme happiness and excitement
-I wouldn't have changed anything about this trip...I was extremely blessed and fortunate to have gotten the chance to get to know these people and share such a powerful and impacting experience with them
Thank you to everyone who was apart of this trip with me...Nate you did such a fantastic job at putting this together and I am so grateful.
sooo....whens the first reunion???? :) I miss everyone already and know that what happened these past three weeks is something I have grown from and will impact the person I evolve into.
-Emily Holland
p.s. Comment any other things I forgot from the trip that are memorable!
