You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 181.

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I'm your host Jess Lively and this blogcast is designed to

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Chrysalis Cardi. Now let's move on to today's show you guys. I am now speaking to you in a maybe sort of echoy but very pretty flat here in Cape Town South Africa.

I am loving it if you've been following me on Instagram you've probably seen a bunch of

Cape Town ranting and ravings about how much I love it here. It is gorgeous. I did not know what to expect

but here's kind of the backstory of why I'm here. First of all I like to say that I got to Africa in general because of Ghana and going to go see the pencils of promise school that you through your listening to the show and joining life with intention online or buying intention

tattoos or whatever you've done to support the lively community because of

your support and the donations I've been making in honor of your support of

all of this we have built a three classroom school wing to the, let me try to say this correctly. I don't always do it right.

Dogeau Pemme community in West Ho, which is in Ghana.

So it was incredible to go see that and experience it.

I was at the ribbon cutting into the opening ceremony.

I sat there with the Queen Mother of the community

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