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Hello.... The winter season is finally over and Jacaranda trees are taking over the city of Pretoria. Now you can finally feel the hot African days. I am not used to that but I cannot complain. Our exchange students have already spent 3 months in South Africa and for most of them the time is running really fast. They arrived in August with lots of expecta-tions, dreams and of course fears. They did not know a word in Afrikaans, Zulu or Sotho. But, by now, they have gotten used to their new language(s) and have overcome about their initial fears. If you want to have a look at how they are doing and what is happening in YFU South Africa just have a look at our newsletter. You will find many articles written by our inbound students about their first months in SA or about the YFU events. You can also read about our out-bound students all around the world. Do not forget to check out upcoming events so you can be part of them :)

Coming up in YFU SA...

Cape Tour — From 28th of November to 8th of December our exchange student will visit the beautiful province of the Western Cape

Outbound students – 3 students from SA are going to discover the world! (end of December/ January)

New Inbound students – YFU SA will host two students from Austria and one student from Argentina. Their amazing exchange year will start on the 24th of January. Would you like to become a Host Family?

Mid-year orientation from 30th January to 1st of February

Newsletter YFU South Africa

December 2014

Content Voortrekker market day 2

CANSA Relay for Life 2

Host Family Day 3

PAO– Pretoria 3

AGM 3

Germany my second home

4

I love football 5

Exotic Argentina 5/6

Outbound students 6

An intern’s day at the Office

7

Interview with Beni 7

Summer Program 8/9

Loanne’s first month in SA

9/10

Culture exchange in township

10

New Inbound Students 11

It is time to go home 11

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YFU Events

Voortrekker Market Day

“All in all it was a really nice day and everybody had a lot of fun! As always when we

spend time with the YFU-Family members!!”

T he monthly Voortrekker Monument Sunday's market every first Sunday in a month is a market at the Voortrek-

ker Monument. On the 6th of September YFU was selling for

the first time at this market. Every exchange student and YFU-

Volunteer was welcome to bake something typical from his/her

country and to sell it at our stall. So the day before, everybody was

busy baking, cooking or preparing something for the market. Then,

Sunday early in the morning, we met at the monument and put

everything on our tables and decorated the stall with flags an fly-

ers and the food with little food-flags. And we had a lot of food!!

And from a lot of different countries!! From Switzerland, Sweden,

Austria, Germany, Argentina, France and more. Unfortunately,

there weren't a lot of people at the market, so we couldn't sell that

much. But it wasn't so bad, because at the end we could eat the left-overs.

And they were baie lekker!!

Author: Malena Philippi

C ANSA is part of an international

movement that unites cancer

survivors and the communities that

care about them. YFU SA decided to

participate in this unique event as we

have done in previous years. It took

place on the sports ground of Denel

where the organizers created a walk-

ing course. Our stall was put up really

fast because we had a lot of help

from our exchange students and vol-

unteers.

When the ceremony started every-

body was supporting the survivors.

They were walking the course to ex-

presses the long journey of the fight

against cancer. Meanwhile people

joined them and that was the main

idea of the relay. Unfortunately a

huge thunderstorm came up. So for

an hour everything stopped and lots

of people left. We had bad luck with

weather this year. After the storm

we started walking again. Each hour

we dressed up in different costumes.

Ngoako and I was in charge of the

braai. It was a disaster. Ngoako is

from SA but he doesn’t know how to

braai and for me it was the very first

time. So the people watching us

couldn’t understand what we were

doing. But Lena had lots of fun. Lucki-

ly, nobody complained about the

wors.

Only the most persistent continued

walking after midnight. Our exchange

student were amazing. We did a lot

of activities together and we had a

wonderful time. At sunrise we paked

up, tired but happy. I have to say

“Thank you” to all of you. It was an-

other awesome event with the YFU

Family.

YFU team walking the course

Best sweets from all over the world!

Cansa Relay for Life

Student taking a selfie

Author: Peter Vadina

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YFU Events

G reat start to our exchange year!

Two weeks after our arrival to

South Africa we had our Post-Arrival-

Orientation in Pretoria. During this

amazing weekend we learned about

important aspects of being an ex-

change student and we also got to

know traditional South African food,

songs and more. After we played a

game to get to know each other, Ni-

na Voges, the national director of

YFU SA introduced us to the im-

portant YFU rules. In the evening we

had a nice braai together and we

spent a great time with chatting with

each other. The night was very cold

but in the morning there was a tasty

breakfast waiting for us. Later we

talked in groups about 'what is cul-

ture' and communication. In the

afternoon we learned the nice na-

tional anthem of South Africa and we

had a lot of fun together. During a

small tea break volunteers had been

preparing traditional South African

food like chicken feet, chicken

heart, liver or biltong. It was quite

funny because we had to close our

eyes and we didn't know what we

were eating. Each group also got 3

words with which we had to prepare

a small play for Saturday. It was a lot

of fun to put for example school,

family and romance together in a

story and perform in front of all the

others. In the evening we learned the

lion dance. At the end we had a great

time together.

This weekend

was full of fun.

PAO in Pretoria

Author: Marie Reiter

Group photo from PAO

Mmm so delicious!

AGM-Cape town

A nother great YFU meeting and another great weekend spent with wonderful people.

It was interesting to hear about the development of YFU over the past year, to reflect on students, families and volunteers that have taken this journey with us and of course a enjoyable dinner celebrating 20 years of YFU South Africa. A weekend of YFU is a always a weekend well spent! Especially if spent in South Africa's oldest city, Cape Town.

Author: Ngoako Mashitisho

Sunday chilling in Cape Town

G auteng region had a wonderful family day on the first of November. About 25 people; exchange students, host families, volunteers and previ-

ous host families met at a public swimming pool in the north of Pretoria. The wonderful weather kept the students and host siblings in the water most of the day while host parents, previous and current, were being lazy under the trees and could exchange stories. With our future exchange students (ages between 4 months and 6 years) playing around us or being hugged by all the “want to be” grannies, the day was perfect. Hope to see even more of our YFU family when we have our next family day.

Family day on 1st of November Author: Magda Buitendach

Students together

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Students all over the world

Who drives the latest models of Mercedes Benz's you ask? Taxi drivers!

O n the 16th of January, I flew to Germany. The thought of

spending 6 months in a foreign coun-try was not at all intimidating, in fact, it sounded like a dream. Almost too good to be true. At first I did not know what to expect, what the peo-ple would be like, how hard the lan-guage would be to learn, if I would eventually make friends and most importantly to me, what the food would taste like! Everyone had told me how advanced Germany is. One thing I am at the airport, the next thing I am being ushered onto a train that literally hangs in the sky hence the name 'skyline'. Maybe I am exaggerating, but I was only used trains that are underground. Then I realized how funny Germans are. I mean, with cars like Mercedes Benz coming from them, one would automatically as-sume that those are the type of cars they use to get around but no! No

way, they choose to use bicycles in-stead. I must say it was easier to get around without the traffic and we all need the little bit of exercise. Who drives the latest models of Mercedes Benz's you ask? Taxi drivers! In fact, my first taxi ride was in a Mercedes Benz ML.

Germans are probably the most punctual people in the world! If a bus or train has to leave at 8, it WILL leave at 8. Not a minute earlier and not a minute later. Whether you have a ticket or not, it will leave with or without you. That took a lot of getting used to. I am used to African time so at first I arrived 30 minutes later thinking it would be there still or would run late. I lost a great deal of money, but it was a lesson learned. Maybe the reason I was always late was because I liked to stay in my warm bed. Trust me when I say -10 degrees is not a child’s play. It is so cold that every room in the house has a built in heater or floor heating. The weather is cold, but in most cas-es, so are the Germans, they tend to

keep to themselves. They are very reserved and are not as friendly at first, but once you get to know them, they are great people! I always say they are like cabbages. You have to take each layer off to get to the good stuff. I did mention that the food was very important because I had no inten-tions of hurting their feelings by not eating. Worst case scenario would be living on fruits and water just be-cause I did not like the food. Luckily that was not the case. Every household has a certain rule, and that is, every time you step into the house, you have to take off your shoes and leave them at the door.

This rule not only applies to the peo-ple in that household, but to visitors as well. But that is not even all. Ger-

many is incredibly safe. So safe that I could ride my bicycle alone or with friends at night. So safe that they do not need a garage, the cars and bicy-cles just stand outside and yet noth-ing would happen. Also there is also not a big difference between the rich people and the poor people. Most of them are on the same level. The school was awesome and free! No school fees and no uniform. The Germans are not all that serious, they have fun. During the world cup, I had a lot of fun. They support their country like no one else. They watch the game together and celebrate by dancing, playing music, singing Ger-man songs, and being all over the place whenever there is a goal. After the world cup final, there were fire-works and people in cars were honk-ing non-stop. This I heard from my friends, as I was already back in SA. The day before the final match, I had to leave. I will miss my beautiful red bicycle, my family, friends and everyone else that contributed in making my ex-change a success. I smiled, I laughed, shed a tear here and there, played, learned, grew and found myself. I would do it all over again in the blink of an eye.

Author: Tshegofatso Masenya

Germany, my second home

Fist snow! :)

My German HF.

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Students all over the world

I love football

M y first month in Germany was certainly a new ex-perience for me, a great one too. A lot of the cul-

ture is similar to some South Afri-can cultures but not all, the fact that people do things like take off their shoes inside the house, use the bicycle to go almost every-where and have their houses so close to one another was very strange and different for me. . . even the structure of how the houses look like on the inside also surprised me. One thing I really love here in Germany is their pas-sion for football and their dedica-

tion to it, I’ve already been to a couple of football match-es here and the feeling and vibe inside the sta-diums are absolutely amazing. Learning Ger-man was quite a chal-lenge for me but I en-joyed it though, it is a very complicated lan-guage to learn. The friends I’ve met here are almost of most im-portance to me, friend-ship is really something that one truly cherishes forever…

Author: Charl-Bruck de Kock

Enjoying Football Free-time with friends

Exotic Argentina!!!....??? Argentina – an amazing country full of different landscapes and nice, kind people. This year we sent two of our students there. Bernelee for the summer program and Nelis for semester program. Read their arti-cles and get to know Argentina! :)

Best experience in my life ...

I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to do the ex-

change. Only now I understand why the volunteers said it would be life changing. This was honestly, without a doubt one of the most memorable things I have ever done. My culture shock happened before I arrived in Argentina, if it could be considered that. I was shocked, an-gry and stressed as you informed us we might be. I got lost in the airport and I could find no one to explain to me where to go, my phone was off so no translator and the Brazilian airport does not have many signs and my airplane ticket never had the boarding gate number on and the

electronic boards had my flight num-ber on but it was said to fly to a different country, not Argentina. Eventually someone said they have

the same flight as I and showed me my boarding gate. But further than that I didn't have any culture shocks. When I arrived in Esperanza I was the only exchange student for about a month and the first exchange stu-dent from the African continent and they expected me to be dark. I was overwhelmed by the attention and I was constantly asked to take a photo with or to speak 'African'. I gave presentations at my own school and another school about South Africa. I got a new nickname which was Bee and it was so strange having every-

one being so welcoming. I turned 15 there and they did all their traditions which they would for a normal Ar-gentinean girl. They painted the street with my name and I got thrown with a bucket of food and they even had a Quince for me. My exchange was by far one of the most amazing memories in my life.

The last day when I left on the bus to Buenos Aires my family and I cried a lot. My dance class gave me a brace-let with my name and Argentina2014 at the back. I have not taken it off and I wear a white and blue band with ARGENTINA written on it that I bought on the airport. To thank my family I wrote them each a letter in both English and Spanish. I also made a video for them thanking them for everything.

Author: Bernelee Kritzinger

My Birthday Party :)

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Students all over the world

Land of Fire

O n 15 August I excitedly depart-ed from O.R. Tambo interna-

tional airport on a new chapter of my life. As the airplane lifted off I felt a lot of excitement and a bit of fear. 11 hours later I landed in Sao Paulo, I had to wait for 7 hours here so I de-cided to settle in and make myself comfortable. It all went faster than expected and the next thing I know I am at a camp for YFU Argentina (post-arrival). It was very fun and I got to meet lots of people from around the world and to make new friends. 3 days after my arrival I was on my way to my host family, this flight was much shorter. When I landed I

learned my first Spanish word frio" (cold) which I found was very useful as the temperature as I walked out was -9 and the first thing I saw through the snow and wind was a sign that read "Bienvenido a Rio Grande" (welcome to Rio Grande). To

my delight, my host family was very nice and helped me to adapt very easily. The next day I started school where I met lots of people, I got asked a lot of questions, some strange... "Is South Africa in Africa?" My classmates were also very wel-

coming and are all very eager to help me learn Spanish. No one here can pronounce my name so I have adopt-ed a new name, Jesus (Spanish ac-cent) to simplify things for my fellow Argentinians. But I never forget what the most important thing is and that is academics, I focus very hard in class and always do my homework. It has been a wonderful month and I have learned "muchos"! I even went skiing! I believe I will have a wonder-ful time here and learn much more.

Author: Nelis Kriek

Outbound students in January

Great news for YFU South Africa. This January we will have three students going on exchange program for one year. We feel proud and we hope they will enjoy this unique experience in their lives. We wish them the good luck! :)

Would you like to also be an ex-change student ? Contact us at:

www.yfu.org.za

Amukelani Mhalaba David Longmore

Azande Centane

My new friends:)

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Being an Intern

An intern’s day at the Office

Why would you want to read an arti-cle about someone spending her days in an office? Everyone knows what that is like: Boring stuff all day long. Are you sure?

I went on exchange in 2011 and spent some wonderful months

near Rome. After having finished school this year I opted for doing something useful with my time and exploring a new place before starting to study again at university. So I took a plane to South Africa and started my YFU internship at the Regional Office in Pretoria. And I can tell that it is definitely not a normal office job. Working in a home office offers a few advantages. First of all you don’t have to drive to work, thus escaping the early morning traffic between Pretoria and Jo’burg. Instead you can have a relaxed breakfast, switch on your computer and start your day checking your mails while sipping a

nice cup of instant coffee. And if the weather is great you can take your lap-top and work outside. First I was responsible for Inbound students and

later took over Outbounds as well. And as you might have already guessed dealing with exchange stu-dents can result in quite a few unex-pected situations. That’s the spice in your soup, that’s what makes it inter-esting. General administration is part of your tasks as well as other things that come up, such as organizing and preparing orientations, following-up on students and buddies, answering questions and phone calls, sending out invitations, or writing a news-letter article. And still there is enough

time left for doing some sightseeing, travelling the country, learning Afri-kaans or simply enjoying your free time with your wonderful boss who is your host mum at the same time, her family and other interns.

I would definitely recommend a YFU internship to anybody who wants to look behind the scenes of YFU in an-other country. You will be provided with some work to do, but also with plenty of great memories, the possi-bility to explore another culture and making new friends.

Author: Annika Nolte

Working hard :)

Interview with Beni ...

My name is Beni Csányi, I'm 23 and I'm from Hungary, I finished my Bachelor's degree in International Relations in June. 1.Why did you choose South Africa as a place for your internship? I assume I inherited my passion for traveling from my mom, so when I found out the Swiss and the South-African YFU was looking for an intern there was no doubt that I would ap-ply. On the other hand South Africa seemed to be much more of a cultur-al shock than Switzerland, so that's why I was desperate to come here. 2.How do you feel in South Africa after first 3 weeks? South Africa is really beautiful and it

is a cultural shock as well. While I spent 3 summers in the USA I got used to that you can just leave your car with a running engine in most places here it's totally the opposite. Looking at all the fences and barbed wires is still uncomfortable. But be-sides this I really enjoy my time, the weather is much better than at home.

I'm not much of a fan of cold weather so I like it here. Wish there was a beach here too though :P 3. You worked as an intern in YFU Hungary. Is there a big difference between how things work in YFU Hungary and YFU South Africa ? Let's say during my internship at YFU Hungary I was doing more adminis-trative things, now I feel a little closer to the students since I at least try to contact them about things, but usually it turns out they don't get my e-mails... All in all though there's no big difference or it just hasn't turned out yet.

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My exchange in SA

Summer Program

‘Seriously Maaike, Africa?’ my friends at family said when I told them that I wanted to go on exchange to South Africa.

N obody could believe that I, the girl that could not live without

her straightening iron, pc and Belgian chocolate was going to spend her summer holiday in Africa. My family was scared as hell that I would get some weird disease or that I would get eaten by a lion. My friends on the other hand were convinced that I would be running around half naked in a small hut. A month (or a little bit more) now I have benn living in South Africa and nobody has to worry: I’m still alive, I did not get some weird disease except that one time that I had stomach flu, I will skip the details about that, I didn’t get eaten by a lion (but we had an elefant chasing us in the Kruger Park), and I did not have to run around half naked. Hooray. Let me tell you some more about South Africa: It’s a country situated in, surprise, surprise, the south of Africa. It has a surface of 1.123.226 km and is much bigger than my country, Belgium . South Africa has around 52 million inhabitants and 11(!) official languages. The most popular sports are probably rugby, soccer and cricket. And of course the most famous South African is Nelson Mandela. My journey started on the 13th of July, when I arrived in South Africa. After a long flight. My hostparents, Jottie and Rynette, were already waiting for me at the airport. After an hour drive we arrived at the house where I would be staying for 2 months. A nice house in a fairly quiet

neighbourhood in Pretoria. My hostmom works for YFU herself and she had already told me that her son and 2 interns Lena (from Germany) and Pippu (from Finland) were also living at the house. After a month, Pippu returned to cold and snowy Finland and my other hostsister Annika (also from Germany) came. Last but not least: My hostfamily also had/has 5 dogs, small dogs who were convinced every human in the house was a potential burglar. Even the ones who were living there all

their lives. Of course, the first week of my stay was a week where I had to adapt. Praying before (almost) every meal was new to me, so was the fact that my hostparents did not curse/swear. Luckily my hostfamily was very kind and helped me wherever they could. Going to school was also different. In South Africa I was brought to school by car and ‘normal’ public transport is not very safe. Schoolhours were different too, It started at 7:20 in the morning and ended at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. At my school the students had to wear a purple uniform and the subjects were the same everyday, in my case: geography, toerism, English, Afrikaans, history, manths and life sciences or PE), the educational level of the school was lower than in Belgium. In the 3rd week of my stay I went to Middelburg to stay with a

black family. The mother could only speak Zulu but the rest of the family was able to spreak English as well. The house was made of different huts, and only in the kithen we had electricity, mostly after 8 o’clock in the evening because then their favorite show ‘Generations’ began. I also went to school, ‘Afrikaans’ was replaced by ‘Zulu’, in this class I could only pretend to understand something. The infrastructure of the school was nothing like in Pretoria: no sports facilities, not even a soccer ball, no library, no decent chairs…However I really enjoyed it. The people were very kind! Not only school was different, the food was different too! I learned to eat pap, vetkoek (fatcook), and a weird kind of chips that tasted great!

After my departure from the

township, I had to get ready for the

trip to the Kruger Park. First we

stayed at resorts not so far from the

Kruger Park where we could discover

the beautiful nature. We visited one

of the largest canyons in the world

and went on a boat trip where we

saw crocodiles. A few days later we

visited a rehabilitation center for

animals and I even touched a

leopard (although I was a bit scared).

Author: Maaike Faes

My Zulu Family :)

Pretend to understand Zulu

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My exchange in SA

A day later, we finally entered the Kruger Park where we saw lots and lots of impalas, hyenas, a lion who was trying to catch a very brave and clever Pumba, elefants, zebras and all kinds of birds. We ended our last day at the Kruger Park with a South African ‘braai’. It looks like BBQ but it isn’t. As my hostdad Jottie would say ‘In South Africa we say, meat is the best vegetable.’ If I had to describe my exchange in a

one sentence it would be: The best 6

weeks of my life. I didn’t really feel

homesick because of the fact that I

had such a wonderfull time thanks to

my host family friends and YFU. If I

could give one advice to anybody

considering to go on exchange I

would say: Just do it. And to my

hostfamily, South African friends, my

family in Belgium and Yfu I would like

to say: Baie Dankie(Afrikaans),

Niyabonga (Zulu), Kalebocha

(Tswana) fort his wonderful time!

Baby Elephant!!!!!!!!

My name is Loanne and I have been an exchange student in South Africa for more than a month now (time goes by so fast) and I already love South Africa.

I live in a black family, I have a mom, a dad a host sister who is my

age and an older sister who doesn’t live at home anymore. As soon as I arrived, they made me feel that I was a member of the family, introducing

me to their relatives as “their second daughter” or “Lerato’s sister” (Lerato is my host sister). I live in Polokwane, which is quite a big city. After two days with the family, I had my first day at school. I will always

remember that day!! Students have been so welcoming, they all came to me as I entered the classroom,

shouting, and more than half of the students came and greeted as the day went. And I had never been told before “You’re so pretty” a hundred times in day!! It is a small school so I knew almost everybody quickly, mostly in grade 11. But even kids in primary school know me! I love the school, I enjoy going there and I nev-er feel like it is a routine. I practice sports and I like staying after school with the other students. The school organises different events, such as “eco-beau fashion show idols”, “talents show”, “so you think you can dance” (teachers and

students compete in dancing). We had a “cultural day”, where stu-dents could wear traditional clothes for their culture. I was great, people were dressed as Zulu, Pedi, Tsonga, Xhosa, Venda… On the weekends, I try to do as many things as possible. With my family, we have been to a funeral in a rural area. It was great discovering a black funeral! It is a big event, when hundreds of people come. My family is Sepedi so all the speeches, songs, priests were in sepedi. It was very interesting. I also went to a black wedding, in a township. It was very interesting too, I enjoyed it!

Loanne’s first month in SA

In math class:)

My Host Family :)

Cultural day in school!

Author: Loanne Guérin

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My exchange in SA

With my friends, we go to a big mall, the biggest of Limpopo, called “Mall of the North”. We went there to cel-ebrate my birthday and ate in Spur. We also go bowling, or go to friend’s houses. Last weekend, I took part in a “women’s walk” with friends

against breast cancer, organised by Pick n Pay. I had a lot of fun! I really like doing a lot of activities and going out with many different people.

I love my experience here, and I feel like it is only the beginning, I still have many projects, hopes… I love

South Africa, people I meet, my fami-ly, what I experience, food (Mugg and Bean, Spur, King Pie, Wakaberry, Mr Biltong…), school, how South Afri-cans are welcoming, South African culture and joyfulness, “house mu-sic”… I want to keep enjoying this country and even more!

The bride and the wife :)

In Spur for my first time !

Bowling in “Farm Yard”

Culture exchange in Township

I just came back from two weeks of cultural exchange

in Stofberg a rural area in Mpumalanga, where I expe-

rienced a different way of life and culture. I lived with

seven other girls in a three room house, with no electric-

ity, the evening and night our lights were candles that

made a very beautiful atmosphere in the house; with no

car, to go to town we walked round about two hours;

the toilet was a little brick construction outside, without

a door and the possibility to flush; our bath was a little

basin with some water inside that we took the day be-

fore from a dam near our house. The mornings I went to

school, then the afternoons I usually helped my host-

mum to wash the clothes (with hands only), cut the fire-

wood, that we put into the stove to cook the food, clean

the garden and crumble the maize for the chicken. It’s

really amazing to have an experience like this, which

taught me that some people, even though living in very

poor circumstances, face every day with a smile.

T he cultural exchange is really a good experience. You learn about their culture and they learn about yours,

like fetch the water every day, use candles because they don't have electricity, play their traditional games, learn their language… Thank you to YFU for giving us the opportunity to do it! This a picture of my host mother, when we went to fetch water from the lake in front of my house, it's the water we only use to have a bath because this water is not drinking water!

Typical Ndebele dress

Author: Anna Lanzidei

Author: Nell Gengler

Anna and Nell in Township school :)

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Good news for YFU SA. Three new inbound students are coming to South Africa to explore our beautiful country. Their amazing journey will start in only two months and they are full of expectations and fears. But there is nothing to worry about. We hope they will have an amazing time here in South Africa.

Daniel Staiger– Austria Luise Stoisser– Austria Juan Saguir Bestani—Argentina

Become a Host Family Are you interested in a new cultures? Would you like to have a son or daughter from a different part of the world? Do you want to share and show your culture? This is the perfect opportunity for you! Becoming a Host Family is not only about offering your house. It is about taking in a new family member. The student will become part of your everyday life and that is the most amazing thing. If you need more information please contact us at:

yfugauteng@telkomsa.net

New Inbound Students

T his is the last page of our Newsletter and for me this is the last week at the YFU office. It feels like I arrived here a week ago but in reality I have

already spent two and half months in SA. I can still remember the first night in the wendy house. I was freezing and I was fed up with the African weather. But when the winter was over I discovered what the weather in South Africa is really like. Sunny days :) Except the scary spiders you have in SA I enjoyed my stay. I met lots of wonderful people, I visited amazing places, and I partici-pated in great events. The biggest hug is for Rynette and Jottie who always helped me and made me feel at home. I hope that the next Interns will have such a great time as I had. Thank you South Africa!

It is time to go home

Sprinboks vs All Blacks!

Author: Peter Vadina-YFU Intern