(Fear not, friends, this post will be significantly shorter than my last, as I only have a limited time left on this computer before it automatically logs me off!)
Well, folks, I left Swaziland on Tuesday morning and am now in the beautiful and exciting post-World Cup country of South Africa! I'm excited for the next phase of my adventure, but it was really difficult for me to leave "the beautiful kingdom" behind. Not only will I miss all of my fellow volunteers, but also the many Swazi young people who became my friends at the Youth Centre. I was inspired there and I learned more than I could have ever hoped to in such a short time. Not only that, but I left just a week before the Reed Dance Ceremony in which young women from all over the country will gather right where I was staying and perform traditional dances for the king who will choose one of them for his next wife! The guys at the Youth Centre even offered to get me a traditional outfit so that I could participate. Isn't that nice? OH, and did I mention that this outfit does not include a shirt? Yikes . . .
I'll miss the adventure of taking the kombi to and from my volunteer post everyday, the walk to the grocery store, the intense and amazing conversations, and how friendly everyone was.
The computer is about to cut me off! More later!
I wish you had danced! Jane, you could have been a queen!!! From now on that will be the one regret you have in life.
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