After her very recent visit to South Africa and Bloemfontein to receive a honourary education degree Oprah Winfrey is set to return to South Africa shortly to become a high school teacher at her very own private girls' school, The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls where she will be teaching the course ''Life 101'' before her first matric class go off to ivy-league American institutions to study there next year.
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The talk show host of The Oprah Winfrey Show (SABC3, weekdays, 17:30) reveals in an email to fans that that she will be back around September in South Africa and her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls to teach a class called Life 101 and to instill in ''her girls'' all the life lessons she wished someone had passed on to her as a young girl.
''Should be fun since I love to teach. And they're like sponges,'' writes Oprah Winfrey. ''Like 12th graders everywhere, this first class is both anxious and excited about going to college. Most will be the first in their family. So it's a very big deal for them, and they're feeling the pressure.''
''When Chris Rock was last on the show he said, 'real wealth is having options'. I thought that was pretty profound. I now stress to my girls that education prepares you to have options. Without it you have none.''
Talking about her girls that she will be paying for to attend top notch American tertiary institutions of their choice to hopefully return to South Africa one day, Oprah Winfrey says, ''they were all stressed for tests,but doing fine. No major crisis this trip. I love being with them and talking to them about all things important. When I'm there I'm talking from the time I get up till I go to bed, about everything teenage girls are going through. It's the same all over the world."
Part II of The Oprah Winfrey Show subtitled ''Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular'' - the penultimate episode of the talk show, is broadcast tonight at 19:30 on SABC3.
