Alright, I don’t have time to fully edit this right now, but expect a longer post once I arrive in Cape Town on Saturday. In the meantime, I’ll just pull my post off TheCoolestOut to suffice as a first entry. Talk to you all soon.
In about 3 hours I’m headed to the airport to hop a flight to Cape Town, South Africa. I’m spending the semester interning for Hoops4Hope, an organization that uses basketball as a youth development tool, trying to teach disadvantaged youth in South Africa how to improve their lives, using sport as the catalyst to create leaders and upstanding citizens. I’m working marketing and PR for when a handful of NBA players come work a clinic, and I get to work directly with them while they’re in Cape Town.
I have no idea what my internet situation will be like while I’m there, but South Africa is a fairly westernized country, so I imagine I’ll have internet available at times. What that means for my contributions to The Coolest Out over the next few months, I have no idea. Obviously Trey will be holding it down, and I’ll definitely be popping in from time to time to post something dope, and expect some regional South African flair to pop up from time to time.
If you want to follow my trip, I set up a blog for my family and friends to check out what I’m doing at https://jrobenalt.wordpress.com. Nothing is up there now, but once I get to Cape Town tomorrow night I’m posting a longer intro. Thanks for your continued support of The Coolest Out, and we’ll let Trey take the stage from here. See you all in December, and if you’re in Cape Town be sure to hit me up.
Peace, love, and good luck.
– Jack
Fall 2009 in Cape Town 