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Greetings! I am taking off to South Africa in about a week and a half to study abroad. I will be studying at Stellenbosch University. I am from Puyallup, Washington but I go to school in Lynchburg, Virginia. After studying in South Africa, I will have just one year left- finally a senior. I am studying elementary education and hope to teach overseas. I love to travel but wish I could do it more. I have been to London, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Uganda, The Bahamas, and Canada eh. I love Africa and would go any chance I get but I'd also like to see India, Greece, Croatia, and Norway.

My brother Chris and sister Lacey are off traveling too. Here are their links:

http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Loo-Loo/

http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/devriecd/

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By bethany grace
May 11th 2008

God Bless the Rains down in Africa Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

sunset

Still here hanging out in Stellenbosch and classes are almost done... just wanted to add some pictures! [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
April 13th 2008

Nothing but bad news Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

Kristenbosch

Sorry for the depressing title. I would love to put up pictures and write about my never ending adventures and how great everything is but something is consuming my thoughts. MY COMPUTER IS BROKEN!!! ya, that's right. AGAIN. So I wasted $100 and R100 on getting a new battery sent here. It worked for a few days and now...nothing. So anyway, a nice friend is letting me use their computer. I am saving pennies (feel free to save some for me) and I'm going to have to do the big switch over and buy a mac when I get home. How? [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
March 26th 2008

i think i'm an adrenaline junky Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Knysna

Bungy!
Jumper # 33...happens to be my fav number twice

Greetings from Knysna! I am enjoying my 10 day spring break. We split from the 51 Americans yesterday and everyone went there own way. Me and 4 girls got dropped off at a car rental place and picked up our extremely small chico. lol...it has been funny. out stuff does not fit. but anyway....last week with the whole AIFS group we did some fun things. We have been so busy, I haven't written anything down and am scared of forgetting what we've done! We went to an elephant park....ostrich farm where you could ride the ostriches, hiked in a beautiful nature [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
March 13th 2008

I can't think of a creative title Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

Well guys. Bad news: still no computer. It is so sad! I want all my picture off of it soooo bad! I am scared of losing them forever. Anyway, the last few weeks have been busy. School is starting to pick up and I don't like it one bit. I had a HUGE paper that I just finished. It is due in the morning. It was about the counterculture movement in th 60's in America and if the rock music of that era was political. Pretty interesting...except not. And I have another paper due Wednesday for my English class. Luckily, it [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
February 22nd 2008

Africa+no computer =Out of touch for a while. Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

So.....good news! (NOT) My computer has officially breathed its last breath. Not sure what I'm gonna do about it. Still kind of hoping I can bring it back to life but it's been 2 days and it just can't recover. The battery was really bad (3rd one I've got from Gateway) and it wouldn't turn on a few days ago but after a while I got it back on. So then I decided to leave it on and plugged in and never turn it off cuz I knew it wouldn't come back. Then the other day it just BOOM, turned black [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
February 18th 2008

Good thing I got a basket Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

going out
here is some of my block 5 crew this is our "living room" homie huh?

Nothing too exciting today. Just a few random stories. I just got back from the grocery store. I had class @ 9 and then I got together with a girl from Ireland to work on our project for tomorrow morning. Tuesday mornings we work in a classroom together at Kayamandi. I think I already talked about how crazy/hectic this experience is. Tomorrow will be our 2 day and our task given by the teacher was to make labels of the body parts to stick on a drawing of the body. This is a bit complicated because the kids don't know English [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
February 13th 2008

My naam is Elmien Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

friends
here are some ppl i've met from america, germany, sweden, and ghana

Wow, it has been too long since I wrote, I'm not sure what to say! Classes first I guess. I finally got a schedule and everything figured out which is quite a relief. I am taking a history of the last 6 billion years course. An a history of the western world in the 20th century. An English course called Travel and Translation:Writing Africa. And a Beginning Afrikaans course. Unfortunately I have at least 2 classes every day of the week. Some of the Americans here have like 2 days off a week, I'm not sure how that works out? Tuesdays [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
February 4th 2008

First day of classes Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

So today was my first day of classes! I had a history class at 9 this morning. I was so tired because I went to bed at like 2 in the morning again. I NEED MORE SLEEP! haha...My class was interesting. It was only like 10 mins long and the professor was super young. It was definitely in Afrikaans....it switched though, like half the sentence would be in English then it would go to Afrikaans. A super nice girl sat next to me from Zimbabwe and she took my number and was like Oh my gosh you're from America...call me if [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
February 2nd 2008

A rare moment in time Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

Ocean
Water & Rocks

Okay...I am quickly going to recollect the last 24 hours in my mind and try to explain them. 1st of all- amazing, and SO MUCH FUN! I feel guilty for having this much fun :) I feel like if I talk about, it will go away....but I have to share! This whole last week has been almost surreal, like, is this real? Classes start on Monday and I am sure all of these things will banish and be replaced with new responsibilities but I will just soak everything up in the meantime. Okay, so yesterday we were having a Bad Taste [View Full Entry]

By bethany grace
February 1st 2008

INTERNET! Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Stellenbosch

Sunset
Amazing....we drove up this mtn. right at sunset and it was like nothing you have ever seen! You could see 360 degrees around. Table MTN, Robben Island, all of Cape Town, the beaches, the other mounta... [more]

So I know this is sad, but I am so excited to finally have internet! This morning I rolled out of bed, literally, and walked my computer back to the internet place (2 time) and they fixed it! So I can finally put up pictures and email without paying for it. The last week has been crazy, it is all starting to blur together now. The last 2 days were 2 major events for Jool for the school. It is SO WEIRD....so basically everyone runs around with their housing group (kinda like frats or sororities) and sings and dances and has [View Full Entry]

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