Well Wed 14th I called Roitarian Dr Paul and then went over to Cape Town Hospital, where I spent several hours looking around the children's HIV/Aids ward. It was clinic day so outpatients day. I was able to visit Kiketso which was great. I also talked with a great lady Kate who is helping to run Kidspositive, a charity/social business which helps HIV positive mothers to made and sell beadwork. Fantatsic!! I got back to Aviva house then took the train to Stellenbosch.. which was rarther a long way away - 1 hour 20 mins on the tain. The train got [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday 6th was my first visit to the Claremont Rotary Club. The President Roschelle lives around the corner from the AVIVA house and kindly gave me a lift. They meet in the very very fancy Kelvin Grove Club (which is like a mansion and was a former gentlemans club whatever that was, before letting the women in a few years ago!). Everyone was very friendly, I met a couple of Welshies who had relocated to Cape Town, someone from Britsol and a couple from Holyhead in SA for 3 months. I spoke... a little Welsh this time... oh dear, and we [View Full Entry]

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Well we never made it to the tarrot restaurant on Wednesday as the taxi driver said it burnt down. I didn't predict that! Instead we ate at a place called the Obz cafe. The food here is great, very good value. Lots of traditional food, and all the usual mexican, italian etc. Pizza is quite big here. Wednesday was my first big night out. We (as in me and the 4 other girls on my shift - Katie, Holly, Jess and Suzane and Donna who is waiting to join the Gary's surf school project in a few days time) went to [View Full Entry]

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Thursday it was 37 degrees here.. so the only place to go was.. an air conditonal mall! A short ride away was one of the smaller malls, Cavendish Square in Claremont. How strange though to be trying on billabong one day (very very cheap here) and to be working in an orphange the days before.... Its all girls here in the project by the way, and also in the AVIVA house at the moment, so we had a good shopping trip.. I was very reserved! Its just fun to look round and see all the diffnert things and brands here. Thursday [View Full Entry]

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Do the words michelle 20 babies and bathtime go together??? thanks for the messages and emails :-) And Mike for the words! Connection here (am in different net cafe) is not so good so haven't got the photos yet!! Round 1 of postcards are on their way out but should take 2 weeks approx!! Well sat night most of us volunteers went to a local bar in Obs. We got carded but all talked our way out of it as none of us carry passports etc! It was a sand pit for a beer garden!! Sunday was another 7am start, and [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, Well I love it here!!! Surprise surprise!! So from the beginning.. the flight was three hours delayed - due to all the winds in London. I was a little worried as a lot of flights were coming up canceled - the pilot said that some of the equipment to go onto planes had blown into the sides of some of the planes, but the Cape Town one was ok because it was waiting in the shed for us..!!! Anyhow, I flew at about half 7pm. Lots of people were super friendly. I met some locals from SA, and swapped [View Full Entry]

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Heya, I've just booked WOMAD so will definitely be back by 27th July!!! 9 days left in UK, 8 in Cardiff, and 5 at work…! xx [View Full Entry]

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So I'm two months away from my round the world trip.. am making lots and lots of lists of things to do before I go.. boring things like change of addresses, and exciting things like reading up on travel guide books, and contacting some of the people abroad who I will meet up with. So far the itinerary is: 18th Jan fly to Cape Town 6 weeks volunteer work in an orphanage 1 week in Jo'Berg and Kruger National Park 2nd March Sydney for 4 days then on up to Brisbane followed by flying to Cairns and back down to Bris [View Full Entry]

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