Hello from Johannesburg, South Africa!
We arrived safely yesterday around 5:30pm South Africa time. Last night we had the opportunity to meet the director of APU’s South Africa Semester and get our vital school schedule. We are staying in a hotel in Johannesburg until tomorrow where we get on a plane to fly to Durbin. From there we will get on a bus and go to Pietermaritzburg.
New York City was very cold and very fun. We only had a couple hours in the city but that did not stop us from soaking up the last few hours in the US!
From early impressions, the people here really like Obama and are glad that he is now our president. Our professor said that people’s impression and how they treat and interact with Americans has already changed since Bush is no longer our President.
Everything is much cheaper here. With that said, people do not make near as much money here as they do in the USA. Kelly our Student Life Coordinator told me that she met a girl who said she makes R9 (9 Rand) an hour which is equivalent to $0.90 in US Dollars. I had a sit down dinner last night that only cost about R40 which is about $4.
Jet lag has set in and it is hard to fight! I was lucky and slept through the entire night without waking up. But I still got extremely tired around the time I would go to bed in the US.
