Hello! Welcome to the Osmans' blog for our trip to South Africa!
Tomorrow, Yusuf (my dad), Sara, and I (Leila, today's blog updater) will be leaving for Montreal, then Amsterdam, and finally Johannesburg. On July 1st, Adam and Lori (my mom) will be joining us. Once we're all together, we'll be moving between Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town, and we'll be making a short trip to Kruger National Park.
The first exciting part of this trip is the fact that the World Cup is going on in South Africa right now! We're excited to be there in the middle of the hype and spirit, and to be a part of all the fantastic and exciting images we've been seeing on TV since the tournament started on Friday morning. Apparently the atmosphere in SA right now is the most exciting any World Cup has ever seen! My dad and Adam are extra excited because they're both ardent soccer fans...and Sara and I both don't mind the Spanish soccer team. Or the Ghanain team. At all. My mom says ditto.
Our trip is also very exciting because it's our first time in South Africa (not to mention the first time we've traveled all together in quite a while). This trip has a special meaning for my dad, because the last time he was in SA was in 1992, before the fall of apartheid. This is the first time he'll be in a South Africa that is not governed by apartheid. It should be interesting to see his perspective and feelings about the new SA. The trip is a very big deal for each of us; it will give us the opportunity to finally meet our South African relatives for the first time, and, after almost 20 years, will be a homecoming to a changed country for our dad.
We hope that you'll follow along and read about our trip! We plan on updating this with our adventures as often as possible, and if we can figure out the technology, to add photos whenever we can!
Take care. Go Bafana Bafana!
- the Osman family
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