Africa-bound!

I have a blog I am working on about "teen leaders" but my schedule has been so jam packed it's very difficult to sit down and actually concentrate on writing something somewhat meaningful and interesting.

HOWEVER, my very dear friend Polly - humanitarian, unconditional-giver, and adventurer - left for South Africa yesterday on a mission to teach the local people how to farm, compost and other "earthy" stuff. She's very excited, as she has been to Africa once before on a similar mission a few years back. If she is able, she will be blogging from South Africa about her experiences. You can read about her experience here.

Ironically enough, Miss Polly is not the only one heading to another continent far, far away. My cousin Christopher left for Rwanda on Friday. Chris is an extremely talented videographer. He's done a lot of editing on movies and commercials and has a pretty awesome video "resume" from what I hear. He's working with a non-profit organization called One Acre Fund. You can learn more about them by visiting their website. Chris will be videoing the projects and progress of One Acre Fund for about 3 weeks.

His mom sent us all an email yesterday with a short update of his whereabouts:

Just a quick update to let you know I talked to Chris this afternoon and he has arrived safely to his destination in the countryside of Rwanda. He left Friday very early and arrived in Cigali (spelling? - the capital of Rwanda) yesterday. He stayed one night in an apt. of one of the workers for the agency and then was put on a bus for the 6 hour trip to his final destination. He is staying in the house of the founder of "one acre fund" and will start filming tomorrow (Monday, March 17th). He is VERY tired but said the country is absolutely beautiful. All his equipment arrived safely with him as well. He has already stretched his culinary palate to include goat shish kabab. I'll keep you all updated as I hear from him. He is scheduled to be back the end of the month.

I dont know if Chris is keeping a blog. He hadnt mentioned it in any emails, but if I hear more, I'll be posting the updates.