Journey

I'm just getting started blogging and will do my best to document my latest trip to Cape Town, South Africa. Uhambo is Journey in Xhosa - I think an appropriate name for this trip. Previous trips have taught me to have open expectations. What you think will happen in South Africa is often different than the real experience, though always positive. I can't wait to connect with those I already know in Cape Town and make new friends as well. I plan to spend a month in Cape Town collaborating with my friend and professor at The University of Cape Town, Jawaya Shea, designing training programs for counselors and foster parents, and a group of mothers as well, in child development practices important to the support of HIV positive children. I will also spend time with my daughter Jess, a grad student in social anthropology at UCT. I should arrive in Cape Town on Monday morning, May 17, and I've been told there is to be a welcoming party of friends waiting at the airport!
My recent previous trips to Cape Town have been leading study abroad trips for University of Illinois students - Human Development and Family Studies Volunteer/Experience Abroad, open to students of all majors at Illinois.

Will post again when I arrive in Cape Town!