Just a little bit more and I'll be in Cape Town. Yesterday was my last shift at work; it was so sad to leave, I even teared up... though it would be more accurate to say I sobbed my eyes out =)

I spent this whole year trying to go somewhere.

Until March, I was waiting for America, but for some reason, America didn't want to have me as a guest, thereby opening up a magnificent opportunity for me to go to South Africa.

I wanted to go the moment I saw this program, but my "lack of knowledge" dampened my enthusiasm a bit, until I read a message from Sashka on VK: "Well, why not? Let's go!"

The next day we were already rushing to the International Exchange Center to sign up for the program—two lunatics obsessed with the dream of leaving =)

I remember my mom calling me and jokingly asking: "I hope you went to university and not to Africa?"

But what university could I think about when you're about to see penguins!

But this was just the beginning...