Day 1

The team arrived in Johannesburg 40 minutes late but happy to be in South Africa finally. One of the team members was delayed in Atlanta due to not having enough pages in her passport. We hope to have her arrive sometime this weekend or Monday. All of our luggage arrived with us, which was a great blessing, and we loaded the vehicles and began the 3-hour journey to Harrismith and the Thrive Africa campus. We arrived around midnight South Africa time.

Today was our first day and we spent the majority of the time in training with the Thrive Africa staff. I think we all found it amazing to wake up with wild horses, springbok and other animals practically in our front yards. It is weird to walk within yards of ostrich and other animals but we are truly enjoying the scenery. We are all tired from traveling and then only receiving a few hours of sleep before we had to get up and be to breakfast at 7:30 this morning. I think we will all sleep well tonight and be ready to go to work in the morning.