Well whaddya you know? I'm alive after all!

Let me start out this post by saying that I arrived safely in South Africa! I got here Tuesday night at 11pm (4pm eastern time) by way of Philadelphia; D.C.; Dakar, Senegal; and Joburg, South Africa (that's Johannesburg for all the peeps behind the times) until finally arriving in Cape Town after a 1/2 hr flight, 6 hr 55 min flight, 8 hr 5 min flight, 2 hr flight, a couple layovers and one refueling. The listing out of all the places and hours is just for dramatic effect because I adjusted to the time well, slept well on the planes, ate well on the planes and am able to get up on time at 6:30-7am each morning for 8am breakfast.

I will write several posts tonight chronicling my last few days since I have not had access to the internet until now which will be explained in the newer posts.

All I have to say for now about posts after tonight is to go by the motto no news is good news if you are worried about me, if any of you even are worried. I will be in a remote location from Monday until the end of March so it will be hard to keep anything more than a biweekly update on this blog, if that even happens due to the limited coverage on my internet access plan. My priority contacts have my information on skype so if you are curious that I have not been updating for a while, just call them up or shoot them a poison email to obtain the 411.

P.S. I know you will do this anyway because my next couple of posts will be very detailed but I want you to have my permission, so feel free to skip around. This is part of an assignment so I want to make sure I get every part of my tangible experiences down and I know it will get boring at some parts.