Made it to Cape Town!

I made it to Cape Town at about 11 their time and got to the volunteer house at about 1:30 their time. the time difference is that they are nine hours ahead of Idaho time.

i sat next to a nice German couple on the 12 hour flight. they shared their "christmas cookies" with me. on both of my long flights we got two meals.it was delicious. i started getting a little scared when we pulled into cape town and it made me a little teary eyed. but i knew you guys were praying for me. when i got off the plane i tried right away to use the internet but it wasn't working without me paying for it. so i got in the immigration/foreign check line where they checked my passport. then when i got through that they let us go into the full airport. it was really nice. it is all newly built. then i waited for my baggage and it was all there!!! :) then i went out and looked for the sign saying SASTS. the very last man in the row was mine. he was a very nice man named Randall :) big smile. it was nice knowing that it was real! then we waited for the other girls he was driving. i'm with a girl named Tori she is in the orphanage program with me and she was with randall when i saw him. the two other girls are study abroad girls with the university here. we got all of our luggage packed in the car and started to take off when one of the last two girls couldn't find her passport so we went back and randall looked with her for about an hour. we dropped them off later, she couldn't find it, and then he brought me and Tori to the SASTS house. when we got there we had to ring the doorbell because no one was answering. luckily someone finally came. but he let us in and he didn't know what was going on, i think he is one of the program teachers. so Tori and i each just slept on a couch because a lady said they only had one bed open and that they weren't prepared for us. so we slept on the couch. it didn't sleep well at all. i couldn't sleep for longer that 2 hours at a time which stunk because i haven't slept much at all in the last 48 hours! but anyway. this morning the house coordinator got there. he is a very very nice man named Howard. he felt awful that we were sleeping on the couch. and said he stayed up until 1 for us. but then left :( so we missed him because of the passport stuff. anyway, he took us up to our room. beds made and ready for us. and we slept for about two hours and then i woke up and took a shower. the house has about 4 shower rooms and at least 4 toilet rooms. there are quite a few people there with us but not all with IVHQ. I met a girl that was doing the surf project and was leaving today. she gave us some tips which was nice. she said people get really paranoid because of all the danger stories but really if you are just aware you won't have problems. she was very nice and super tan. now tori and i are going to get something to eat and the bus will come get us for orientation at noon. we are RIGHT around the corner from the world cup stadium! we saw it last night. and we are RIGHT next to the beach. we are living right now in Sea Point Cape Town. it is o beautiful and the buildings are bigger than down town salt lake. it is nice. Today i do orientation and then meet my host family. I am way excited. :) I don't know when i'll be able to write next. oh p.s. i saw a sign saying ice cream 25R. haha oh man... this will be awesome.