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El equipo A listo para salir /The A team ready to go! |
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la gran guerra del cojin / the great pillow fight |
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Aeropuerto de Ciudad de Cabo /Capetown arrival |
We finally arrived, but with a team of Spaniards every step of the way is always an adventure! At three o’clock in the morning on July 23rd, all our alarms went off…it was time to load up the van and two other cars with 15 pieces of luggage plus hand carries and hit the road for the airport. The two KLM flights went very well, with great service and a lot of noise from the 10 seats that held our burgundy and blue clad King’s Kids team. The crew treated us very special, even though Holland (the national sponsor of KLM airlines) was the last team that Spain beat to win the World Cup final. They said good-bye to our team on the intercom and even the stewardess got in on our team pillow fight, giving Carlos a good whack in the head.
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Gaby y amiga /Gaby & her new friend |
After 18 hours of travel, we landed at Capetown Internacional Airport (it’s a good thing we finally got there…another hour more and probably the captain himself would have given Ariel a good shot with the pillow!) There we were met by Helen and Estel, two South African ladies who will be hosting us when we return to Capetown in a week. The next morning, alter a quick orientation complete with powerpoint, we made a brief trip to the shantytown named Klipheuwel, a collection of tin and who-knows-what-else collection of discarded boards, cans and cement dwellings where more than a thousand people eke out a living with few physical comforts. But to see the smiling children´s faces, you would think they were living in luxury!
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1er día Durban /1st day camp in Durban |
Now, we’re off to Durban to join a camp with 250 other King’s Kids from Holland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Brazil, China and Africa! Until then,
Tu reportero fiel, Curtis Clewett
Your faithful reporter, Curtis Clewett
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