Hey Folks,
This is the log for Generation Joy's Foundations 2010 trip to South Africa to share all the donations from our 2009-10 drive. This promises to be a great trip and we hope to shares stories and pictures from this year's travel team throughout the duration of our trip. Feel free to pop on if you like, we should be active through the beginning of August. Aloha,
Curtis

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Hi Folks, Jenna, Nick and Carson returned to Seattle last Saturday, July 31st after more than 30 hours of travel. During their last few days in Underberg and Himeville, they accomplished a great deal and took supplies to several more schools. Carson mentions that she was particularly impressed with a Catholic school they visited on the Wednesday of their last week. She said that the nuns were "really cool" and showed them around the property. There was a beautiful church (see photo) and the building they were holding classes in while their regular school rooms were being painted reminded her of [View Full Entry]

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Hi Folks, Here is the latest e-mail update from Jenna, and some more photos. The travel team is working very hard to get everything distributed before they leave at the end of the week. The photo of the child with the pencil around his neck that Jenna talks about on day 6 was already posted in the last entry... go back and take a look if you didn't see it! Thanks for your interest in the travels of Generation Joy! ~ Linda "Hello! Sorry it's taken so long to get this update out to you all. I appreciate you following along [View Full Entry]

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July 21st.. received another update from Jenna on days 4-6. I'm going to include the rest of the photos I have. I will hopefully have another e-mail to post soon! "Day four, first full day in Himeville/Underberg. We got a late start to the day, seeing as how there was no container to unload. We made it to the gallery for some pottery/art/gift purchases, went grocery shopping, hung out at the grind (when I sent the first update), and enjoyed a nice dinner with the Forde family (who are gracious enough to host the supplies in a newly laser alarmed storage [View Full Entry]

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July 19th was the first e-mail from Jenna with an update on days 1-3 of their trip. I'll include a few photos from Kruger... but I believe these were taken on iphones, so be sure to check our website at www.genjoy.org late in August for more great photos of the trip! ~ Linda (The following is Jenna's e-mail) "We arrived in South Africa on Friday afternoon...we had been afraid that we would miss our connecting flight out of Addis Ababa, but the ground crew there ran us to our own personal shuttle and took us to plane time-out (or so it [View Full Entry]

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Hi Folks! Bet you've all been wondering why you haven't heard from us! Well... the travel team has very limited internet access and they have been unable to do much more than send a few quick photos and e-mails. So.. I am going to do my best to piece together the e-mails and photos that I've received, in chronological order. Curtis left a week ahead of the rest of the travel team, and James arrived in South Africa a day before the rest of the group. Ellen, Barb, Jenna, Nick and Carson flew out late Wednesday night. I was a bit [View Full Entry]

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Hey Folks, Getting ready to depart on GenJoy Travel Team trip to South Africa for the the delivery of all the wonderful donations and great feelings from the Beaver Lake MIddle school community adn beyond. Look forward to trying to keep you up to date with all our (mis)adventures and good times in South. No doubt each person on this year's travel team will find many special moments they would like to share. This year's team includes former students from BLMS: Carson Guard and Nick Buechel, three teachers from BLMS: Ellen Betzler, Jenna Velozo, Curtis Betzler and two GenJoy Board members: [View Full Entry]

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