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b'The Africans are coming. BadEM are surfing a #FOAMed wave at the moment and they are doing it with style, which isn\\u2019t that surprising when Kirsten Kingma is one of the team.\\n\\nThe Jellybean Podcast is a big fan of the www.BadEM.co.za bunch. Of course we are. Why wouldn\\u2019t we be? They are a great cohesive team of fabulously varied individuals. We like that sort of team. If you were at #dasSMACC you won\\u2019t have forgotten the BadEM team standing up with their friend and colleague Annet Alenyo @aalenyo introducing the whole room to #UBUNTU and @Go_Supadel. On the BadEM website the team members have pen portraits. We have already talked to The Logic and The Braun. Today we speak to The Adventurer.\\n\\nI got into medicine for many reasons but one of them was that I would have my profession in my head and no matter what shit went down I would still have all that stuff in my head. Given the nonsense coming from the White House these days I still think it was the right idea. It isn\\u2019t easy to squeeze all that stuff in there and I had to make some sacrifices. I had to let some stuff go, sporty stuff, arty stuff, academic stuff and so on. That\\u2019s what I thought I had to do. Or did i? Did I have to give those other things away?\\n\\n@SurferKirst wanted to become a doctor. She saw the adventure in medicine. She wan\\u2019t willing to let the other adventuring go. Surfing scholarships, paragliding study groups and thats just the start.\\n\\nI\\u2019m hoping she sets up the first zero-carbon aeromedical retrieval service using tandem solar-powered para-motors. You\\u2019ve got to think big. Otherwise BadEM wouldn\\u2019t have put together the totally free conference in Stellenbosch last year. Or the #badEMfest18 next year!\\n\\n\\n#badEMfest18 is a whole new concept; glamping, mountains, learning and if Kirsten has anything to do with it some nutty adrenaline sports! They have a knock-out local faculty and some international blow-ins from St. Emlyn\\u2019s and The Teaching Course. And I can reveal that there will be a South African Teaching Course in Cape Town just before #badEMfest18 (March 2018)\\n\\nIf you\\u2019ve never been to South Africa or the continent of Africa then I have a question for you; \\u201cwhy?\\u201d\\n\\nI have another question for you \\u201cwhy not in March 2018?\\u201d\\n\\nAfter that there are only 54 more countries in Africa to visit. They say this is the \\u2018Asian century\\u2019. I wouldn\\u2019t be surprised if it ended up being a close run thing.\\n\\nThe #badEMfest18 is on from March 22-25 2018. I know I want to go.\\n\\ngo to www.TheTopEnd.org for all the show notes and links.'