Who are we?

This blog is an agglomeration of the thoughts and experiences of two American girls who packed up and moved to South Africa on a whim. Caz from Fairfield, Connecticut and Mandy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin first met as roommates in 4127 on Semester at Sea in Fall of 2010.
In the interim, Caz returned to finish her Bachelor of Science with a double major in Biology (concentration in Microbiology) and Geography with a minor in Chemistry at the University of Miami in Florida, while Mandy took a hiatus to rediscover her real passion working with pregnant women, advocating for home birth and delivering babies outside of a hospital environment. We reconvened to follow both of our fields of study (read: hopes, dreams, asiprations, life goals, etc.) outside of the United States. Hello South Africa?

We are both here for at least a year and a half, though the more time we spend falling in love with South Africa, the more we'd like to think it'll be longer. We are both starting jobs in November/December: Caz working with infectious disease at a hospital clinic and Mandy beginning her training to become a certified midwife. Before then, we are both writing a book about our experiences leading up to this adventure as well as the multitude of serendipitous happenings that led us here.

As always, feel free to comment or ask questions. If you have an interest in a topic, let us know and we will surely oblige you (within reason). Enjoy!

Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Gouna Project

As Caz mentioned in her Circles in the Forest post, we've been quiet lately. Too quiet. It's been the silence before the storm and let me tell you, things are about to get rowdy. This slow and painful building of suspense is finally over and we can breath again. Breath the good clean air of success and slow world domination. So what have we been doing in the last few quiet months? It's almost the end of April and in that time we may or may not have started an entire non-profit from the ground up...

So skipping all the juicy details that got us to that point, because I mean, we don't want to spoil the movie that'll inevitably be made about our lives, here's the start to our amazing journey running The Gouna Project.

ENJOY!!

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