Pre-departure information

I am not sure how soon I will be able to post once I begin traveling about, so here is a little overview of what I will be doing for the next five months.

I am leaving on Saturday, January 24th for London where I will arrive around 5am and spend the next few days with my British relatives. It has been ages since I have seen them all, and I am more than excited to rendezvous across the ocean for a bit. Not to mention it will break up the traveling- I will still have 11 hours of plane time to get to Cape Town!
On the evening of the 27th I will board my British Airways flight part II and get into Cape Town the next morning, hopefully stepping off the plane to find a lovely IES abroad representative waiting for me. From there your guess is just as good as mine, I assume I will meet the other participants and make my way to my apartment. We are all placed in apartments 5-30 minutes traveling time from the University of Cape Town. I have no roommate info yet, but I am optimistic and looking forward to living in a new city!
Classes do not actually start until Feb 11th, but I have a packed few weeks of first program and then university orientation including tours, field trips, barbecues and I assume lots and lots of information. Then the learning begins! My schedule is unknown as of yet, but I am counting on getting some cool classes so my senior year isn't a (complete) scramble for credits. I fly into Boston around June 13th, assuming my plans do not change!