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May 9th 2007
Hi Friends, Sorry for the space between my blogs, but though there has been lots going on, sometimes it's just difficult to come up with ways of describing things. So, for the last month, you could say we have reached phase two of our adventure. Phase one, or the settling phase, took quite a while. Getting everything organized, the house, the car, the utilities marched along at African time. Phase two we will call the getting comfortable stage. Anj is in full swing at her work as her last blog showed. She has completed a marketing plan for the charger and presented her findings to the board. Now she is busy setting up plans and appointments to sell the product worldwide. A trip to Kenya is in the works for July and she may even be ... read more
May 3rd 2007
Hi everyone! Bry has done an excellent job blogging our life here, but now I shall take a turn and try to fill you all in on my life at work. Apologies in advance if this is a bit more boring than Bry's usual entries :) I am working at Godisa Technologies Trust (www.godisa.org), a very interesting place indeed. Godisa (it means "to help things grow") is a social enterprise, although that terminology is new and unfamiliar here in Botswana. It is a charitable trust with deaf empowerment as a core value, but we assemble and sell products including hearing aids, batteries, support equipment like audiometers, and Godisa-invented and developed solar powered chargers for the hearing aids & batteries. The solar powered charger is ingenious - often the cost of batteries is as expensive as the ... read more
April 30th 2007
Hello All! It has been a few weeks since our last entry and a lot has been happening here. We have had our adventures, both in the city and outside of it and enjoying it along the way. First of all, we have finally moved into our house. It's a small turquoise house on a street that I cannot pronounce or spell but looks something like this: Motshawartasela. People don't know or use street names here and in fact, when asking a local Gabaronian which street to turn on, they can't tell you it's name. We don't use our street when giving out our address, just what they call the plot number. How morose. Every house in town and in fact in the country has its own unique plot number. Good thing there aren't that many ... read more
March 27th 2007
Hi All, Well, we have now returned from our first proper adventure in Botswana (not that randomly moving to Botswana isn't an adventure in itself). WUSC treated us to a long 4 day weekend of our cultural orientation for the country. We took the Land Cruiser about 700km West through the Kalahari and up to Ghanzi, to meet, live with and learn from the San Bushmen of the Kalahari. Most people visiting Botswana never get to see this. They tend to pop in, go see the Okavango Delta and the Chobe Reserve and spend big bucks for the experience, but miss the Kalahari entirely. In fact, it seems as though most of the bottom 2/3 of the country are completely avoided by tourists entirely. Gaborone is the first city I have ever visited in the ... read more
March 21st 2007
Dumelang! Well it's two weeks in and we are starting to get our bearings and get comfortable with the city. I can pretty much find my way around by driving though I find myself constantly distracted by the little things I notice all around me that represent the life that is this place. People make their livelihoods by the side of the road. Mango sellers park their flatbed trucks full of the fruit under shady trees, often next to manure sellers doing the same. Yesterday I passed by an area where a man was selling wooden bowls; today a woman has laid out intricately woven table cloths to sell. In the western part of the city, efficiently called Gabs West, it seems as though a welding district has sprung up. Basically, everywhere along the roadside ... read more
March 16th 2007
Hi All, We can now be contacted!!! Both Anj and I have cell phones and would welcome calls anytime - remember, we are 6 hours ahead of Toronto. Anj's Cell - 011-267-74112008 Bry's Cell - 011-267-74111509 Well time is moving quickly here and we can't believe it has already been more than a week since we arrived. There is so much to do here to get things sorted. Back in Toronto, it took 2 months to deconstruct our life, sell furniture, cars, clean out the apartment, and find homes for the pets. Now, we find in Gaborone, we have to reconstruct our life again. Any place we rent will come completely unfurnished, including no fridge or stove and it turns out, we really need a car here as well. We have found a nice place that ... read more
March 8th 2007
Hi All, Well we have made it - and are sitting here at the WUSC offices in Gaborone in the morning of our third day, the sun is shining and we are starting to get our bearings, a bit. Where to start - well, I think I will spare you all the details of the journey over here - lets just say it was long, generally uncomfortable and I have pretty much caught up on all the movies I was just "dying" to see - luckily, I was not forced to watch any romantic comedies including Russel Crowe, Diane lLane or that annoying Winona Ryder. The highlight of the trip though, needs to be mentioned. Our last leg of our journey saw us taking a bus ride at the Johannesburg airport along the tarmac to our ... read more
February 28th 2007
Well it's just 4 days to until our adventure and today is my (Bryan's) last day at work. We're all packed and ready to go - this time next week things are going to look a lot sunnier, dustier and interesting. The nerves haven't hit yet as I am pretty sure that I have no idea what we're in for - I am at the quiet excitement stage at the moment - which to outsiders looks a lot like my hyper/tense stage. Angela would say that I have one expression for all occasions. Anyway, expect a lot more of these blogs from us - providing that our email service doesn't include a 1920's era telephone, some copper wire, tinfoil and a rhino. Thanks to all that came out to our party this past Saturday - it ... read more
Anj & Bry's Travelblog - Welcome!
Published: February 23rd 2007North America » Canada » Ontario » TorontoFebruary 23rd 2007
Hi everyone, We have set up a travelblog account so that everyone can keep in touch with us after our move to Botswana. We'll try to post & add photos often enough to keep it interesting! You have been added as a subscriber to our travelblog. To receive alerts in your inbox when we add a blog entry or photos, you will need to allow messages from webmaster@travelblog.org - some spam systems will put these alerts into the junk box. If you'd like us to change the email address we have for you so that these alerts go somewhere else, just let us know. We can be reached while we're away at angelaandbryan@gmail.com The countdown is on - we leave March 4 for Botswana! Anj & Bry ... read more
January 24th 2007
We've set up our travel blog, started to pack the house & are looking forward with great excitement to our new adventure in Botswana. The reps for WUSC/Godisa in "Bots" have been very positive & helpful and may have even found Bry a job or two! ... read more
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