Pre-departure

mattsafrica — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:42:00 GMT

Hi,

I leave for South Africa tomorrow; and my family and friends have persuaded me to create a blog! I'm not sure how often I will have the opportunity to update this, and whether or not I will choose to anyway as it's the first blog I've ever written, and ever plan to write [in all honesty].

This whole thing has been a bit of a whirlwind experience already; and I haven’t even left London! But I think I'm prepared for the 10 weeks now. I've gone through the motions of preparing to leave: educating myself on S Africa, sorting out all (or most) of the items I will need whilst in South Africa, and goodbye parties with friends and family. However for some reason it all seems surreal that in 24 hours I will be boarding a plane bound for South Africa.

I’m going to South Africa for 10 weeks with an organisation called Platform2 who I heard about through my best friend [who travelled to Nepal with the same people last Summer]. She came back raving about Platform2 and the experience she had had so I decided to apply and see if I got accepted – with no expectations whatsoever; but 6 months later here I am about to leave for what I hope will be a great experience.

Ok that's all for now, I need to finish packing and I’m off to Wembley to see England play tonight [can’t believe I will be in South Africa during the World Cup but not even see a match]!

See all of you in ten weeks,

Matt

Matt in SA

Pre-departure