Itinerary

Here is our itinerary!!

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL TEACHING IN SOUTH AFRICA, JULY-AUGUST 2009
Date No. of Days Day Activity
30-Jun day 1 Wed Arrive in Cape Town: group 1
1-Jul day 2 Thu Arrive in Cape Town: group 2
2-Jul day 3 Fri "Official Welcome and logistics orientation Robbin Island, District six museum, bo-kaap City centre, Waterfront, opening dinner World Cup: Quarter finals 4pm and 8pm BIG SCREEN"
3-Jul day 4 Sat "Wine route: Stellenbosch, Spier, Paarl, Franschoek WORLD CUP: 4pm Cape Town and 8 pm"
4-Jul day 5 Sun "Peninsula trip: Signal Hill, camps Bay, Hout Bay Chapmans Peak/Ou Kaapse Weg, Boulders, kommetjie, witsands, fishhoek, etc"
5-Jul day 6 Mon "orientation at UCT: historical overview - politics, culture and education Prof Crain Soudien and student presentations"
6-Jul day 7 Tue "Orientation at UCT: Knowledge in the Blood: Prof Jonathan Jansen WORLD CUP: 8pm Cape Town"
7-Jul day 8 Wed "orientation at UCT: transformation - politics, culture and education Meet UCT education graduate students/profs. HIV/AIDS, WCED officials (Roderick Williams and Dr Ronald Cornellisen) WORLD CUP: 8pm"
8-Jul day 9 Thu "Trip to Table Mountain- cable car and
hike down the mountain"
9-Jul day 10 Fri "orientation at UCT: teaching, assessment, and everything else(dept. officials, teacher panels) + educational challenges of SA classrooms (panel of principals, panel teachers, Special ed) POTJIE, GAMES, TRADITIONAL DANCING"
10-Jul day 11 Sat "trip to Gordon's bay, Betty's Bay, Pringle Bay
Hermanus WORLD CUP: 8pm"
11-Jul day 12 Sun "Gansbaai, Cape Agullas Southern Most Point of Africa
WORLD CUP: 8pm"
12-Jul day 13 Mon "Shark Cage Diving or Hermanus Last night at Deo Gratia"
13-Jul day 14 Tue "Check out at Deo: Township tours: Langa/Khailitsha,
Mitchells Plain Meet the teacher/host Function - Go home with teachers"
14-Jul day 15 Wed school day 1 (observations)
15-Jul day 16 Thu school day 2 (observations)
16-Jul day 17 Fri school day 3 (teaching) - Rugby
17-Jul day 18 Sat Mountain contour path hike and Kirstenbosch gardens
18-Jul day 19 Sun host family weekend
19-Jul day 20 Mon school day 4
20-Jul day 21 Tue school day 5
21-Jul day 22 Wed School day 6
22-Jul day 23 Thu School day 7
23-Jul day 24 Fri school day 8 (Rugby)
24-Jul day 25 Sat host family weekend
25-Jul day 26 Sun host family weekend
26-Jul day 27 Mon school day 9
27-Jul day 28 Tue school day 10
28-Jul day 29 Wed School day 11 (indoor cricket)
29-Jul day 30 Thu School day 12
30-Jul day 31 Fri school day 13
31-Jul day 32 Sat West Coast: Vistas: Darling, Citrus-dal, Saldanha
1-Aug day 33 Sun West Coast: Saldanha, strandloper
2-Aug day 34 Mon school day 14
3-Aug day 35 Tue school day 15
4-Aug day 36 Wed School day 16
5-Aug day 37 Thu School day17 (Last day at School)
6-Aug day 38 Fri check out with host family and Leave for George
7-Aug day 39 Sat Explore: Knysna Featherbed, Elephant farm
8-Aug day 40 Sun Explore: Game farm, Xhosa village
9-Aug day 41 Mon Explore: Oudtshoorn, Kango caves, etc
10-Aug day 42 Tues Leave early morning for Cape Town - Deo Gratia
11-Aug day 43 Wed Deo Gratia
12-Aug day 44 Thurs Leave Cape Town for the US