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How I Found Myself in South Africa

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I lived in the big city of Moscow, worked for a big newspaper and was raising two kids. Everything is revealed between the lines of my newspaper stories – a miraculous chain of causes and effects.


In 2008 I landed to the Kalahari desert of South Africa, which was sitting as a nail in my head for a long-long time since I saw the movie Gods must be crazy.

 

kalahari-race

kalahari-race

 

I then moved to South Africa in 2009. I was lecturing at the UNISA (University of SA), had my own  personal photo exhibition and started running. Now I am traveling permanently, combining trail running with ultralight long distance hiking.

 

I’ve got a feeling that I am in a film under somebody else’s direction about how I manage what is happening to me all the time. When I realised I could never edit this movie I simply enjoy starring in it.

 

 
 

  LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Lena Faber used to work as a journalist at a mainstream Russian newspaper, wrote books for a major publishing house, and directed her original concept on TV. In 2009, she moved to South Africa, taught at the university, took up running, and earned a silver medal at the World Masters Athletic Championship in California and, in the meantime, won an international photo contest with following up solo exhibition. In 2014 she "shut the door" and gone hiking the Appalachian Trail, cycling from Chicago to LA (US Route 66), from Maine to Florida, from London to Orkney, etc. Now in MidCoast, Maine.

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