Category Archives: South Africa

Today is Election Day in America.  Americans are just waking up on this important day; while, for many of us in various countries around the world, this day is half way over. Most American expats have already voted.  Pretty much the only way we can vote is by absentee ballot.  We represent a small voterContinue reading “Election Day Abroad”

Today, Cecily and I went to Irene Market to get some cool stuff and to eat some even cooler food.  Check it out: Cecily’s school break is coming to a quick end, so we’re trying to milk these last few days before she heads back to the U.S.

This really did happen to me today.  I didn’t make it up; my mind is not this creative. Today I went to a pharmacy in Pretoria.  It was a pharmacy called DisChem which is similar to a Walgreens in the U.S.  It’s basically a big store with lots of products that just happens to haveContinue reading “A True Story; Not a Horse Tale”

In the years that I have lived overseas (7 years combined), I have at times found myself in unexpected situations, doing things that I doubt I ever would have done had I stayed in the US. For example, when I was a Mormon missionary in Italy in my early 20s, I taught a couple ofContinue reading “Unexpected”