Day 1 at AE in Pietermaritzburg

We got up early this morning and made our way to the airport. The airport in Johannesburg is very nice but, still very African which means that a lot of things are a billion times more confusing than they need to be, but we finally got things figured out and made our flight. Once we arrived in Durban we grabbed our luggage and jumped into the vans and made our way to the African Enterprise Conference Center in Pietermaritzburg, our home for the next 3 months. The campus has one large building where we eat and take classes that is surrounded by smaller offices and chalets where we are staying. The chalets are 2 story and pretty good sized holding about 20 people in each and ours has a kitchen! The campus itself is beautiful- i haven't had time to see all of it yet, but it's set back from the city and is surrounded by a nature reserve which makes it kind of secluded and offers some great animals- Adam saw antelope and zebra before dinner. It is definitely colder here than in Johannesburg but it will get warmer as it moves into summer and the rainy season here. Until then we will just be big fans of our space heater. Tomorrow we have our first lecture and then in the afternoon we are seeing something that has to do with birds of prey.