I picked up an Afrikaans phrasebook yesterday! Well, it's actually an "Africa" phrasebook. They don't sell any Afrikaans books at Barnes and Nobles here. It has 13 sections on the 13 major languages in Africa. The very first part of the book is over Afrikaans though, and I think it will be really helpful. I know most people will speak English, I think it will still be good to know some phrases. The language seems really Germanic, which is good for me because I know German. The words are spelled and pronounced a little bit differently, but overall it is really similar to German. I'm not going over there to learn the language, all of our classes are in English, and I doubt I could learn much in a month anyway, but It can't hurt to know some words and phrases.
By the way, the title of this post, "Ek gaan na Zuid Afrika!" translates to "I'm going to South Africa", Less than two weeks now and I'll be there! I realized today that in a period of just over 24 hours I will have been on 4 different continents. That's over half of them! I'll be in N. America (obviously), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia (Dubai), and Africa (also obvious). That's pretty cool!
The doctor said he didn't think I’d need any vaccines, because I'm all up to date on mine, but he was going to check to see if any were recommended. It's wintertime there though so I'm really not concerned, plus I'm going to be in the city most of the time anyway.
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