Blogs from Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 4

I did not want to wake up today, just knowing that I had meat prep made me not want to get out of bed, but I dragged myself out and went on down to the restaurant. Yara was going to feed one of the tigers so she asked me if I could film it, since I couldn't do anything until the tigers were out of the lion enclosure anyway, I said sure. The seemingly normal morning took a terrible turn when we realized that one of the tigers, Amber did not want to get up, we had noticed she had been a little lazy yesterday, but didn't think it was really anything, there was a storm coming and we figured maybe that was it. But today we knew something was wrong when we couldn't even coax ... read more

So today was my first day on tigers, because my real first day would have been my day off. I was all alone in my group today because Natalia and Chantel were in Jeffrey's Bay, they had left yesterday for the night, they were supposed to be back for morning feeding but I guess they weren't. Also, it was Pascal's day off for the week. So I get up there at the right time and am just watching the big ones when Tamz comes down to see me. She says I don't need to walk them because I'm by myself and its a pretty crappy day out anyway so they probably wouldn't behave. So Tamz said I can just wait till everyone else gets down here. When everyone else arrives, Emily says she'll help me because ... read more

So today was my day off for the week, a bunch (6) of us bungee jumped and went ziplining! We got up at a little before 6 am in order to catch the van because Delano, one of the workers, was taking us to bloukrans bridge, the largest commercial bungee jump in the world! He asked us all if we went to the bathroom because it was a 2 and a half hour drive and one girl is like nahh my bladders a champ! and I was like yeah, mine too, 5 kids and 1 bathroom, you kinda learn to hold it. Then we started off on our drive and I must say the things they have on the radio here are hilarious! On Thursday, they have drunk news, and it just so happened that all ... read more

Once we finally left the school I was talking to the head teacher about the shooting in Colorado because she knew I was from the states she mentioned that they don't have mass shootings in south Africa. Yeah they can have gang shootings over turf and stuff but you don't hear about any serial killers or anything. That's mainly in other more developed countries and I began to think about that and how strange that is. And if course the psychology behind such a thing. It would seem that more people in the us have better lives and better means and yet they are more likely to act out against society than others who don't have means. Although I guess they don't really know the other side. I also think that killers like those have something ... read more

First off, let me begin by saying that the people at Equity are amazing and not just because half of them are signed up for my blog. On my last day of work on Wednesday, Mully, gave me a ginormous flyswatter, 2 toy tigers, a toy lion and a toy snake and some munchkins! Come to find out I was earlier to work that see expected me to be so she made my sister Michelle call me over to her desk to distract me so she could set up my desk. Later on in the day I had everyone I worked with sign my flyswatter. Now they can all cross that off their bucket list. In addition, they threw me a little shindig with my pod (people near me) my friends and people I worked closely ... read more