"My win-a-trip journey to Africa, with a teacher and a student." You call that "win-a-trip"? Are you serious? I would call it "lose-a-trip". I would call it the "miserable trip." I would rather spend a week with a baboon than a day with Nicholas Kristof. But I do believe that the teacher and the student who "won the trip" deserve 10-speed blenders each for putting up with his boring liberal babble for the duration of the trip. Poor them.