In my life I have travelled a fair bit, mostly for work, so I feel comfortable in airports, almost at home. Over a year ago my friends of many years kicked their newly hatched son out of the house and into the big wide world to travel with still-wet feathers. Okay he was 18 and it was his gap year so this was not child abuse. As communications arrived from Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Africa etc., it gave birth to this brilliant idea; that they should, in their midlife, address a severe” gap” in their development, they should do a gap year. [View Full Entry]

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It was a morning of sad goodbyes... Fiona and I, along with all the other people leaving the tour, got up early to wave off the truck full of new travellers, and a couple of our friends who were staying on the truck, as it headed off on its 3 weeks trip to Cape Town. After breakfast, everyone else started to leave to go to the airport for their flights home/onwards. Fiona and I hadn't quite worked out how we were getting to Pretoria, so we figured the best way was to take the free lift to the airport, which was [View Full Entry]

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so here i am. its been awhile. msc (mid service conference) is over and done with. it was really cool to see what everyone has been up to in their villages and everything. talking about best practices and everything. to be honest this would have probably been a lot more beneficial a few months ago but it was really nice seeing everyone. and taking a break from the village. a bunch of us stayed at the beach out of dars busy crowded smelly city center. did all the usual things that dar has to offer. lebanese food. movies. indian food. ice [View Full Entry]

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Sonntag 12.7.09 Ich war 4 tage jagen - man glaubts kaum nachdem ich die ausbildung zum field guide/nature guide hinter mich gebracht habe ☺ Ich hatte die möglichkeit mit nem mitstudenten und seiner familie ca. 370 km nördlich von pretoria (in der nähe von bela-bela) mitzugehen - sonst wäre ich niemals auf die idee gekommen jagen zu gehen. Nun einerseits bin ich froh ist es durch, denn die familie sprach 90% afrikaans und ich verstand kaum was aber andererseits war es interessant in ne südafrikanische familienstruktur reinzusehen und ich bin absolut positiv überrascht davon. Ehrlich ges [View Full Entry]

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17.6.09 heute haben wir unseren freien tag gehabt und ich habe das verbunden mit meinem vorstellunsgespräch in der hongonyi lodge naehe hoedspruit. zuerst waren wir in hoedspruit im sleepers fruehstücken gegangen und danach ging ich 1,5 h ins internat café um mit der aussenwelt zu kommunizieren. Von dort gingen wir in den safari club relaxen und warten bis wir (marten, oli und ich) dann um 2 uhr richtung hongonyi lodge fuhren. Dort habe ich das interview gehabt und bin absolut positiv überrascht von der lodge oder resp. von den aufgaben die ich dort machen werde. Insofern ich dort arbeiten [View Full Entry]

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The day before we go! 08/05/2009 It’s time to do all the final preparations and make sure that we haven’t forgotten anything! One of the “soon to be tourists” are a little blown-up in the mouth region, as the other decided to play a bit of his online game before booking the seats online, some valuable time was lost (even if it was only 5 minutes) and the only available window seat was the one overlooking the left wing. At first Melinda was a bit disappointed, but then she realised she only prepared herself for 1 disappointment, so [View Full Entry]

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At van Wyk, skrywer uit Pretoria: Dankie vir die jongste brief. Ek het die voriges gelees en raak meegevoer deur julle geesdrif. Ek vertrou alles sal ten beste vir jou en jou meisiekinders en AoH verloop. Ek en almal kla net, julle druk Afrika aan die hart. At van Wyk [View Full Entry]

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Boy pet's Party Saturday, 14 March '09 My two pet's had great fun with Rian, Jolene, Brian, Lindy-Anne, Leonard, Johan (jnr) & his cuty girlfriend, Len & Jo-Ann at the "Bos Pub" in Moreleta. Evening started out great, but the boy pet forgot his picture taker thingy at home, so I'll just have to run the first section of the party by you without photos, just a few quick pic's taken with his mobile phone. The pets had loads of colourful drinks out of cute little glasses after which they had jummy baskets filled with goodies to eat, followed by more [View Full Entry]

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Ek is Elzanne Robinson, ek is 'n ex fsa uitruilstudent van die Desember program in 2008. Ek wil net sê ek dink hierdie Africa our Home projek is AWESOME, ONGELOOFLIK!! Ek het baie geleer in Duitsland, maar die grootste ding wat ek geleer het is dat ek NOOIT in my lewe uit SA sal verhuis nie. EK BLY NET HIER. DIT IS MY HUIS, MY ALLES!! Ek is mal oor SA, dit is 'n awesome land. En ek ondersteun ook die AOH projek, want ek het net besef wat rerig in hierdie kontinent aangaan en ek wil so graag daaraan werk [View Full Entry]

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Duiwelsdraai Gister was eintlik maar ’n snaakse dag. Ek het Dinsdagaand tot laat gesit en werk aan so vreemde vak wat ek moet vat vir my honneurs. En om een of ander rede doen ons heelwat meer werk in daardie vak as die ander. As iemand my ken, sal hulle weet dat versteurde slaappatrone iets is waarmee ek maar grootgeword het. Soos wat die aktiwiteite opduik shuffle-shuffle jy maar so deur die standaard-roetines. Maar die vet weet. Die wete dat die een of ander karikatuur van ’n dokter wat jou met VIER net sulke (arms beduie terselfdertyd verwoed dat &l [View Full Entry]

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