We got a wake up call at 5am so we could be up early enough for our early morning game drive. We bundled up in as many layers as we could manage. We stopped downstairs for 'breakfast', which was just coffee and biscotti. We took our bus out to the game reserve were we transferred onto two open safari vehicles. When we got going it was still completely dark out and absolutely freezing. We had our hoods up and our hands covered. Just as the sun was starting...

We had a late morning where we packed up out suitcases and had breakfast. Veronika, Merina, Sean, John and I took a walk over to a nearby gas station to get some money from an ATM. But we were all packed and ready to leave by 10. It was about a 3 hour drive out there. We stopped half way at a market to shop, and then food. The market was amazing. It was actually very big and packed full of stalls. The merchants were amazing at selling things. They were extremely ...

Earlier morning than yesterday. Good breakfast again. We hopped on the bus for a tour of downtown Johannesburg. It was a bit of a drive in, and we didn't get off the bus at all. The downtown was large, but it was run-down. Apparently it turned into 'slums' as immigrants moved in and the businesses moved out. After our downtown tour, we went to the Apartheid Museum. We were given quite a bit of time to look around on our own. The museum, although fille...

We popped back to the hotel to change into our choir tshirts and then took a bit of a drive out to a gated community church for our workshop. There were some beautiful succulents outside. We got to work with Sidumo. He taught us an African song and it was really fun to have him teach us, although some people were better at the movements than others. After our workshop, we stopped by the hotel for a bit where we had a group chat on the hotel lawn. And then we wer...