Day 9 – driving back to Cape Town, Middlevlei Wine Estate, last minute shopping at V&A Waterfront, final dinner in South Africa Our last day in South Africa began with an early wake up call. We enjoyed our last breakfast at the hotel in George. Then, we boarded the bus for a 5+ hour trip […]
George, South Africa
Day 8 – Sinethemba Youth Development Center in Khayalethu Township The team started the day with a big breakfast before boarding the bus to head to Sinethemba Youth Development Center in Khayalethu Township. After a short ride through the mountains we arrived at Sinethemba and were greeted by many smiling faces. We started playing various […]
Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Day 7 – Oudtshoorn at Buffelsdrift Game Lodge, Cango Caves, driving to George Today we woke up at the Buffelsdrift Game Lodge in luxury tents. These were definitely the coolest place we’ve stayed in this trip! They had a beautiful view of the scenery and cool outdoor showers. We could hear the wildlife during the […]
Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Day 6 (Monday) – Driving along the Garden Route, visit and lunch at an ostrich farm and safari game drive at Buffelsdrift Game Lodge Today we headed out of Cape Town to experience even more of South Africa. Our day began with an early wake up call at 5 am. We then packed up our […]
Cape Town, South Africa
Day 5 – Brett Archibald inspirational talk, K College alum Paul Tshele Q&A, Baphumelele Children’s Home, Gold’s Restaurant This morning we started our day by receiving a life changing story from Brett Archibald, a motivational speaker from South Africa. Brett shared a horrific story of how he survived after being thrown overboard a boat and […]
Cape Town, South Africa
Day 4 – Soccer Match vs. Ajax Cape Town F.C., District 6 Museum, and Dinner at Camps Bay Today we had a later wake up call! It felt great to start the day fresh with more sleep. After breakfast to headed to Ajax Cape Town F.C. The fields and facilities were beautiful. Some of us […]
Cape Town, South Africa
Day 3 – Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope, Penguins at Boulder’s Beach, Soccer match vs University of Western Cape and Volleyball match vs University of Cape Town Today we took a tour along the Atlantic coast and our tour guide Frank told us many things about the formation of early South Africa. South […]
Cape Town, South Africa
Day 2 – Table Mountain, V&A Waterfront Today we went to Table Mountain and V&A Waterfront. Wow, what an experience it has been! We started off the day with 6:30 am wake up call and left for Table Mountain at 8 o’clock. Our tour guide drove part way up the mountain where we stopped to […]
Cape Town, South Africa
Day 1: Robben Island Tour, RV United Soccer Club Clinic – Khayelitsha Township, Match vs Saints Volleyball Club Our first day in Cape Town, South Africa was a great adventure. We hopped of the 18 hour plane ride and headed right on to undulation of the Atlantic Ocean aka the ferry to Robben Island. At […]
Introduction to the Volley-Blog of our journey to Cape Town, South Africa
To teach, through the framework of volleyball, excellence, commitment, respect of self and others, and to have success within a culture of trust. This is the mission statement as I wrote it over 25 years ago. It’s guided me while I made decisions about personnel, goals, schedules,and outcomes. In this, my final year of coaching […]