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Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 12:01PM

On the Plane, En Route to Singapore via Johannesburg

I really don’t know where to start.  This trip has been nothing like I have ever experienced before.  Exactly seven weeks ago I was at orientation for the University of Maryland, signing up for the fall semester.  I just wanted to get through the last couple days quickly since it was a hectic week.  I really had no idea what to expect for this trip.  I am really glad that I didn’t set any expectation either- it allowed for me to have a completely open mind and truly experience South Africa to the fullest.  Ok, enough fluff.  I am going to prepare an outline for what I will be writing about over the next week.  I will be in Maine, on vacation with the familyWhite and will be able to relax and completely decompress from the life changing experience I just had.  So here it goes:

Politics

-Short History

-Current SA

-Current Enkhanini

Food

-The Good

-The Bad

Culture

-White

-Colored

-Black

-Similarities to US

-Differences with US

-Language

People

-Lourens

-Elsa

-Joel

-Juan

-Jaco

-Nikita

-Mama Unas

-Children

-Cassie

Organizations

-Serve the City

-13^th Floor

-More Wine

-Keep Them Safe

-Christian Associates

Future

-STC/Lourens and Elsa

-South Africa

-Me

Wow that’s a lot.  Well, I plan to at least write a couple sentences about each topic, summarizing, concluding, and explaining.  Please, please, please know and understand that everything I write and have written is based off of limited knowledge and limited perspective.  I take the observations and have created some generalizations.  If any of these generalizations are wrong, please just comment below so I can correct them.  If you disagree with a point of view or don’t understand something, do some outside reading and contact me- I would love to talk about this stuff and hear other perspectives: trevin.hoekzema@gmail.com