In the past week I have been working to make my transition
from one UB to another. My summer with Upward Bound was so full and I can’t
believe that I waved goodbye to the last students at 4 pm on the 3rd,
to staff at noon on the 4th and goodbye to America at 4 am on the 5th
and was saying Dumela to Africa by the morning of the 6th. It’s has
been quite a world wind adventure and I know this is just the start. Gaborone
is a very interesting capital city, high rises and shopping malls lots of
construction, busy roads with cows, goats and monkeys roaming the busy streets
along side many friendly Batswana. Capturing the image of Botswana quite
clearly, a young nation working on developing as a modern state while retaining
Setswana culture and the unique qualities that make it an African nation.
While spending
our first week of orientation shuttling back and forth from our 5 star hotel to
the University to restaurants back to the hotel, I haven’t explored much but we
shall return and I’m sure that my two month stay will expose me to tons of
great spots in Gaborone.
I think I have yet to have my moment of realization that I
am in a strange city in another country on a completely different continent,
wrapping up my Upward Bound paperwork, going to classes, catching up on sleep,
getting rid on my cold and mingling with my fellow Bats in training is keeping
me in a bubble but I am sure that the transition to the small village of
Manyana will help with making that realization.
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