Hey all -
Made it to Cape Town safe and sound. Had a nice long flight, a long layover in Qatar and a long flight again, but it wasn't too bad. The service was excellent and it felt more like I was flying in a limo than a plane!
When I landed I was quickly found by Reverend Patrick of the Nazarene church here. He brought me to Ursula who has adopted me as her child. She took me on a quick evening tour and then we picked up her son, an intern at a sports clinic (training to be a PT), had a steak for dinner and then I slept for a few hours last night.
Today I suffered through an amazing breakfast with eggs, sausage, weetabix and more. Ursola connected me with some 20-some volunteers that she works with. Many of them are working with the project I had originally looked into call Baphumele. Funny how those things work out.
I tried to cure my jet lag with a 2 hour hike up Table Mountain. I'll tell you on the next blog if it was a good idea or not. I then visited world of birds where I got to see VERY up close many animals including monkeys (sat on my shoulder), all sorts of birds, kangaroos, ostrich (ate out of my hand) and more.
Great first day in CT. All safe and so far so good. This weekend I'll be visiting an orphanage and do some other visits. Ahead in Ursula's plans for me are a boat ride to Seal Island (maybe see some great white's breaching?), Robben Island, perhaps a safari, the Nazarene church on Sunday with the youth and more.
Love you all lots!
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7 comments:
Glad to hear everything is going so well. World of Birds sounded awesome!
I wouldn't risk the chance of MAYBE seeing a great white. I say chum the water and get in a cage ya wimp!
Seriously, let me know if you get to see one.
Thats awesome Marcus! I am envious of your international exploits already :)
Hi Marcus,
I am struggling with this Blog thing. Hope you get this message.
You go Boy!! You have already had a wonderful experience that most of us have not had!!
Please keep us posted for things you may need sent to you.
Hope this blog thing works for me and keep me posted. Wishing you all the best
Love
Eileen
Marcus,
This is Scott Benton. We met 10 days ago at the perspectives course at EMU. I am so glad you made it safely and it sounds like you have a great host. Please say hello from their brothers and sisters in Christ from FCC. Take care and keep spreading the word and spirit of God.
I've gotta be honest...I'm definitely a tad envious!! I'm with Justin...just climb in the cage, man up and do it!! Make sure you take lots of pictures and post them here for us! You are loved bro!! When you get an actual mailing address let us know...peace!
Hi Marcus, we are so glad things are going well for you! What a great day to celebrate there while we were celebrating the 100th anniversary at church here. I hope you get to watch some FB this afternoon so you can talk back to your team when they try to trash your players. Have a great week seeing all the sights, I hope you see a (or some) shark(s). Love, Patcie
We'll see about the shark cages it is expensive. I dunno if I can spend any money after seeing the orphanage.
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