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Saturday 2 August, Cape Windjammers Offices, Woodstock

Today, we discussed more preparations for our trip to the Tall Ships’ Races. YEAH! Unfortunately Shafeeqah could not be here, but we still managed to get our things together. And since we are a team, we backed up for Shafeeqah today and will brief her about all our actions today. Our Visas have been approved, so our main concern right now is that we get all the flight and bus connections so we will be on board in time and not miss the race …

It still hasn’t sunken in yet for me that we are going …

The exciting part was learning to use our new XO Mini Laptops, sponsored by the One Laptop Per Child Project. Click here to find out more about this project. Only 3 projects in South Africa were selected to be part of Phase 1 of the testing phase of this very new tool. And Cape Windjammers was one of the few lucky! The laptops will help us to write a daily log. If all the inter connections on board work, you will be able to read our daily log on this blog. So keep watching!

And more good news today! New Balance sponsors track suits for TEAM SA and the company Watersign is sponsoring the embroidery for the TEAM SA label! That’s fantastic! Thank you so much! Many many thanks also to Ruben Coetzee for facilitating this! You are a star! Watch this space to see us in our team wear!

Claire – signing out