About me...
Swazipond was created to share travel tips, lessons learned from culture and language, open your eyes to international living and share the best music and art that you may have never known otherwise!
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I live and volunteer with my wife in rural Swaziland, a tiny country mostly surrounded by South Africa. We’re learning to speak the SiSwati language while daily we also enjoy being exposed to Zulu, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Xhosa, Afrikaans and various forms of Southern Africa sign language. My given SiSwati name is Mduduzi, meaning comforter.
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Travel in Swaziland and South Africa is always an adventure. Stunning landscapes, incredible wildlife, amazing people and intense weather patterns are often the source of our life lessons. Immersion into a culture vastly different than where we grew up opens our eyes to appreciate the variety of our human family, showing us how little we actually know. From Table Mountain in Cape Town to the sand of the Indian Ocean in Durban. Looking a free roaming lion in the eyes to the shadow of an African Elephant. From the Swazi Gogo (grandma) on a rural homestead to the Afrikaner ranger at Kruger National Park. Crossing borders and exploring is a beautiful education!
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From Oregon, my journey has taken me from work in landscaping, to managing a coffee shop, to corporate events for technology and cyber security executives to volunteering in rural Africa. I have a keen interest in the arts, I wrote, recorded and performed with my music project Jetpack Missing. Influence from my creative wife and our new home has inspired a love of video and photography. To support my family I co-founded Yebo Ties, an online business selling wooden bow ties. We upcycle fabric and wood to create wearable art.
Ngiyajabula! I’m glad you found us here at Swazipond, enjoy the adventure with us!
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Siyabonga kakhulu,
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Scott (Mduduzi)
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