Blogs from Africa - page 2968

Stuck in Horghada Leaving Luxor, I took a five hour bus trip across the Eastern Arabian desert and through the Red Sea Mountains to the coastal port town of Hurghada. This was to be a jumping off point for me to get over to the Sinai Peninsula, destination - Dahab, Egypt. I arrived into Hurghada Saturday evening and hoped to pass through quickly but unfortunately learned that the next high speed ferry across the Red Sea would be early Monday morning. I checked into my $7 per night hotel room and bided my time exploring the local bazaars and visiting the lone Western outpost in town, The Hard Rock Café. Again, like all the other towns so far, I seemed to be the lone American, amongst an array of European and Asian travelers, most of which ... read more

THE RWANDA GENOCIDE "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincable, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always. Mahatma Gandhi ******************************************* I experienced some of the most horrific truths known to man today. I attended the International Tribunal for the Rwanda Genocide in Arusha over the past two days. Belguim Luietenant-Colonal Claise was testifying to the facts as he experienced them in Kigali, Rwanda in January of 1994 - a time when the country was on the brink of the genocide. Yes, 1994. These grotesque acts of evil seemed to happen while the world looked the other way and those that were not looking away intentionally were ... read more

So this blog has been a work in progress for about 2 weeks...i guess i have a lot of catching up to do. so here goes.. i know a while back i posted that i would be starting my internship at a migration related NGO, but due to a series of unfortunate events, i never started there and actually missed out on 3 weeks of potential internship time because the directors of the program here didn't have a back-up idea in place. So two weeks ago monday i had an interview of sorts at the "Ministre des Senegalais de l'Exterieur" to see if i could spend the remainder of the internship period, roughly 3 weeks, there. The director was mildly receptive of the idea, but enough so that my advisors from school wanted to go ahead ... read more

ok so the ENTIRE blog i just wrote just got comploetely wiped thanks to miss verity over there who told me to close the illegal operations msg thing..cheers for that vez... so i cant really be bothered/cant actaulyy AFFORD to rite the whole thing again - suffice to say sdince last week we went to mombasa for the day on thurs, went to the new camp kenya school on fri and the orphanage, went drinking all saturday and me, nathan, vez and becca watched the stars all night and a meteor shower, then left for safari at 6.30 on sun morn. safari was wicked cos of the accomodation and the food, but we only saw animals at tsavo east - elephants and giraffes crossing in front of the truck - and then at satao rock we ... read more

Hey guys, quick shout just to say "I'm in Port Elizabeth!!" Again, i dont have my camera cable on me... i really gotta start carrying that thing around with me :o) The bus ride here was amazing... one of those sleepliners... super spacious and big windows. It made the trip super easy to handle. And we got here and the Kwantu people picked us up... in a Beamer. Yes, a brand new (think brand new car smell) BMW.... i think Shona and i lucked out on our volunteer placement ;o) There are so many many things to tell you guys (i.e. it sounds like we're going to get to help out with "Lion Walks" which.... get ready for this.... is when you take tourists for hikes ALONGSIDE tame lions. Yup. Does it GET any cooler than ... read more