Well today
has been quite the day. I made it to Boston without a hitch. When I arrived I
had the pleasure of meeting Kurt who is on staff with Cru and a girl on our
team named Katie when I arrived at the airport. My plane was the last to land,
so when we arrived at the Cru office in Boston, I found a room absolutely
crammed packed with people. I made several introductions quickly but gave up
knowing with the 30 plus people in the room I was bound to have to learn them
as I went. However, I did make sure I introduced myself to Miche Kang, the
student who previously ran with the photography class at the Mamelodi
Initiative and is now apparently co-director of the entire program. Our long
series of emails had come to an end and it was exciting to see her knowing that
my long awaited arrival to South Africa was coming to a close.
Then the
directors of the project; Bob and Judy Kuzman and Jonathan and Kerry Thorn,
welcomed us all to Boston and took time to tell us what a pleasure it was to
have us. As we went around the room introducing ourselves, I was starting to
scratch the surface of what a high caliber of people I was going to be working
with. There were people from prestigious schools like Harvard, Dartmouth,
Brown, Syracuse, Cal Poly and App State – of course. We were here from all over
the country but we were all here for the same reason – to seek God’ s will for
our lives by working with this amazing non-profit we had all heard so much
about. I can tell you right now this project is going to be something special.
After spending time going over crucial flight logistics and spending some time
in the word together, we hit up a local Boston favorite – Uburger. We sat in
(FIND OUT NAME) Park, watching the US play Portugal in the World Cup on Tom’s
phone. With Paul, Ross and I crammed behind him trying to watch on the tiny
screen I ate my Double Hijack burger and started to take a look around as the
live stream got lagged.
The
farthest north I have ever been to this point has been Sea Side Park, NJ. I was
definitely intrigued by Boston but I have not been able to keep my head from
buzzing about the plane that will soon take me to Frankfurt Germany to spend
the bulk of our 11 hour layover in the
city. After lunch we loaded up the cars and headed to the airport, no doubt on
our way to a great journey. As we stood
in line at the Boston Logan Airport to depart I remembered measuring the
dimensions of my bag, which came close to the 62 inches of width, length and
height allowed due to the video tripod that I had carefully put away in my Osprey. I dreaded the apparent $300 fee that could
come if Lufthansa deemed my bag to be oversized but thankfully it did not come.
As we sit here, talking, laughing, playing cards and laughing again in the
terminal I am getting pretty exhausted. I’ll write you again in Germany.
Please pray that:
We would travel safely.
God would use us to achieve his will through the Mamelodi
Initiative.
My gear doesn’t get stolen.
God bless and all the best,
Dylan Rollins
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