Editor’s note: Mocha Club member and volunteer, Annie, is blogging from Cape Town, South Africa on the Mocha Club trip from May 28th-June 10th. This is our first official “trip blogger” so please help us spread the word and check back for updates!
By the time you read this blog, we will be somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. The end of our trip will have come and gone and we will have our suitcases packed with souvenirs. Probably for you. You deserve it, after all.
Words can’t fully express how we feel. In fact, we just met with an American who lives here in South Africa and she talked with us about how to come home to you and tell you about our trip. Because there aren’t enough words, in English or in Xhosa, to explain it, but we’re going to want to talk. Or maybe we won’t. I don’t know. I just know it may be hard and frustrating and a slow process. Sure, we’ve only been gone for 14 days, but it’s felt a lot longer. And we are different. I am different.
So instead of words, we offer this parting gift…
Thank you, Mocha Club. Thank you for reading this blog – we always felt like you were right here with us. Thank you for supporting these projects and these people. Thank you for helping us to realize we need Africa more than Africa need us.
With sincere gratitude,
Annie
