To Africa We Go

Ok here we go.  Today, well more precisely tomorrow at 12 am.  But to be completely honest it is never morning in my head till around 6 or 8.  For some strange reason I  associate sunshine with morning....So today in the middle of the night I will be getting on a plane and flying with some other chosen passengers to Britain.  I will stay 8 hours in London and then proceed on another plane ride which will be a 12 hour episode.  Which when the credits roll onto the runway I will be in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Now I am not traveling alone and I am sorry I made it sound like that for effect.  No I am traveling with my mother (Em Zember, renowned soap maker and entrepreneur) and her companies soap maker (Joshua Allen, Artist, MMA fighter, soap maker, and winner of most diverse resume). 

We will be living, working, traveling, all in a town called Pretoria.  We will be staying in a missionary camp for three weeks helping out.  My mother and Josh will be making soap, and because I haven't gone near soap since I realized it involves math skills and patience I will most likely be working in the orphanage, and the school.  Don't assume I am good with kids, I just am one that is all, I am 15, as you can tell from my achievements in a copious amount of grammatical errors. 

I guess I should give a little background of how it came to be that this unlikely trio is traveling to no other than South Africa.  Well my mother owns The Great Canadian Soap Co.  which if you haven't assumed is a soap company.  And as the story goes one day out of the blue a phone call came from Africa and they wanted to know how to make soap.  Well my mom started telling them everything she knew, but as soap making goes you have to be there to do it.  So they invited her to Africa.  My mom told me and asked if she/we (I am my mother's or she is my traveling partner) should go.  Of course my response was in decibels only dogs can here, and the process slowly started moving.  That was about a year ago.  Now my green backpack is packed, and the plan is set...to Africa we go.

-Z