Arrival to South Africa - August 29th

...it's funny how you can forget about even the most obvious differences between places... as i boarded the south african airways plane, i heard lots of folks talking around me with not-american accents, and laughed to myself upon suddenly remembering that even native-english speakers from south africa speak with a distinctly different accent.  i'd been moving toward for south africa for months, and yet still couldn't believe that the plane was actually carrying me to see billy and to live in cape town ...