Blogs from Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa, Africa - page 7

I fly home on Tuesday :( :( Can't believe it is all coming to an end! I don't want to go back to the real world! I definetly feel like I can do anything now and I will! I've decided I want to study in South Africa next year and hopefully I will!!Well anyway I haven't had a chance to update for awhile I haven't been to town for 2 weeks because I was on a ranger course for 5 days last week. I was awesome only 4 students got to go and I was one of them.We went to a place called Nhoveni which is a private part of Kruger that Moholoholo owns.I have been there before but this time it was much better! I learnt a lot about tracks,trees,birds etc and we got ... read more

I'm shattered the kids at school have worn me out! 43 5 year olds screaming and running around. We just can't control them!We have to get teacher Freeder from next door most of the time as they actually listen to her! They are absolutely gorgeous though even though they drive me mad! It's my last day at school tomorrow quite sad but I think i've had enough now! Tomorrow school finnishes at 12pm and then we are going straight to kruger park. We are going for 3 days! I'm soo excited. We went to the cheetah project on Saturday I wasn't too keen on going as i've been before but it was actually really good. I saw a lappet faced vulture and around 20 hooded vultures at their vulture restaurant I couldn't believe it! We only ... read more

South Africa Karongwe A quick entry (with just a few pics) to let you know things are going well in South Africa. Just finished five weeks at Karongwe Game Reserve. We daily tracked the lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas there. The reserve was great. Managed to get very close to the animals. Sometimes too close!! Leopards and elephants charging at vehicles - exciting and scarey moments. Training week was our first week. Took a while to get back into the routine of lectures and revision. We had a few written and practical tests then at the end of the week. Our training also involved going to the reptile park to 'get over our fear' of snakes. We had to manouvre a black mamba, on our own using only a stick! To celebrate the end of training ... read more

I've done soo much since I last updated and I only have 10 minutes left in the internet cafe :( We had 6 new people arrive on Monday. 5 English 1 Australian all girls. They are all ok. There are now two Charlottes but she gets called Charlie which is good! Sunday we spent a lazy day by the pool at swadini I got burnt ahh soo annoying! Tuesday night we went on a sleep out at Na veni. It was soo hot.I made sure I was well protected this time!When we got to the area we were going to sleep we dug a hole,collected fire wood and then went on a short walk looking at tracks. We drove around dragging meat to the end of our truck so that animals would follow the scent.We also ... read more

Haven't really got much to say as I am updating this journal quite frequently. I went on a bush walk on Tuesday at 6.30 in the morning. We looked at tracks,trees and poop!! We came within 2 metres of two Rhinos. It was scary. I have never seen them on foot before. At one point we were surrounded by Giraffe,Zebra,Warthogs and Impala all at the same time it was amazing! We were on the bushwalk for 2 hours and it killed me walking through the forest in the heat and it was steep at times. It was worth it though. We have mainly just been at Moholoholo the last couple of days. Lyn who normally takes us places is on leave for 3 weeks so one of the rangers have to take us out. We ate ... read more