Subject: Phones on the trip, Passports, etc...
From: "Philip McAdoo" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Debario Fleming" <[email-masked]>, "Shoshanna Sumka" <[email-masked]>, "Betty Hernandez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:25:37 +0000

South Africa Friends

Well,… I still have not packed, but I have a few more days.

Phones

Mr. Fleming and I have been talking, and we are going to allow students to bring cell phones if they wish. The travel time alone may require students to want to listen to music or entertain themselves for 18 hours + in the air. Not to mention, the ability to take photos in Africa will be important. We are going to be spending a lot of time outside and students will each have their own personal connection to the work and our experiences. It will be important for them to document those experiences.

However, there will be restrictions.  We will discuss as a group the time when students are allowed to have their phones and we will collect them during our orientation, when we are working and at the final room checks at night. Please remember to call your service provider to request a plan. In the past, students have simply kept their phones in airplane mode and connected to wifi at the hotel and internet cafes (free) . IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNATIONAL PLAN…DO NOT ANSWER YOUR PHONE. IT WILL COST YOU!

Passport

Please make sure you have at least 3 or more consecutive pages BLANK in your passport. THEY WILL NOT LET YOU IN THE COUNTRY. Triple check those!

Airport

2:00 PM: Meet at Delta check-in at Washington Ronald Reagan National Airport

  *   Delta Flight 2614         16:15  Washington Ronald Reagan      Atlanta
  *   Delta Flight 200           20:04   Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson      Johannesburg

RETURN: DULLES INTERNATIONAL 10:15 AM JULY 4TH

  *   Delta Flight 2618                     8:30  arrive at 10 15 AM (July 4th)            Atlanta – Dulles International Airport
  *   We thought long hard and if you do not want your child to have a phone, we will honor your choice. Please respond with an email.

Please email or call me if you have any questions or concerns.

With gratitude

Philip McAdoo, Ed.D
Director of Equity, Justice and Community
Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-537-2406
Mobile: 202-430-0095

“When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you, whether you are dark-skinned, old disabled, female or speak with a different accent or dialect than theirs…when someone describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.” - Adrienne Ric