So as many of you know I, Courtney Michael Lemm, will be leaving for Cape Town, South Africa very early on Tuesday until early August. I will be working with the NGO Education Without Borders, which is running a very cool program at the Fazeka School in the Gugulethu township. Today is my very last day at home with my family, and tomorrow I head to D.C. to see some friends and to catch my flight from there. My eventual hope is that this turns into two things. First, for all you curious family and friends it will be a slight look into what i'm up to and what Cape Town itself is all about. If your my mother it will be a way to check up on me. Second, more selfishly I hope it turns into a detailed documentation of what my year entailed.
So at the moment my only real tangible impressions of South Africa are from two friends i've met in my time working at Kenwood and Evergreen and in England, the movie Invictus, and this very nice promotional video.
So in essence, I have nothing. Yet I hope that my musings and tales are both an insight into what Cape Town is all about and also a reminder to myself about my time (good or bad) spent here. So I will try to keep up with this (don't they all say that), and hopefully it transforms into a nice tool. Until then, do what i'm doing and just keep listening to Toto.
