(Totally maxed out my credit card to do so...but that's okay)
I'll be leaving from Boston on New Year's Day. I plan on spending a week in Johannesburg just being a tourist, and then flying to Hoedspruit, where the people from the Southern African Wildlife College will pick me up at the airport and drive me to the college.
I also bought traveler's insurance, after having my bank card denied and having to call them up and raise my spending limit per transaction...I didn't even know I'd had a limit. Eh, better to discover it now when it's easy to change.
The other thing I did was to fill out some paperwork for URI so that they'll give me class credit for going over there to volunteer. After it taking longer than I expected to purchase the plane ticket and traveler's insurance, I don't have time to drop the paperwork off today, but I'm going to be on campus tomorrow morning for work anyway, so I'll just drop it off then and hope they accept it. I'm going anyway, but it'd be nice to get credit for it.
Things are really coming along. I needed proof of travel (a.k.a. - a plane ticket) before I could even apply for a visa, so now that I've done that, I can get the rest of my shit together to plan a trip to NYC to visit the South African Embassy and get my visa (because you still have to do it in person).
Yay for getting shit done!
Next up:
Apply for visa
Go shopping (it's going to be hot down there, and I've only got like two pairs of shorts...plus I need adapters and things)
just remember that i can't help you if you get into trouble in that wonderful hellhole you call south africa. well i guess new haven wasn't much better but at least it was in the united states and they have nice shinny razor wire every spring in new haven. and we have real laws here in the united states.
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catch ya then
love daddy