Just a quick update from my life down here in
South Africa. I’m sorry but this post is going to consist more of pictures than
text, since I’m short on time and the Internet connection isn’t the best :)
Right now I’m sitting in a hostel in Knysna,
which is a beautiful town placed on the Garden Route. However, let me start
with the days before traveling to South Africa, the exchange at the University
of Western Cape and the first days in Cape Town.
From the 29th -30th of
November I have been in Lusaka for having the mid term evaluation. Said in few
words, it was nice to see all the other volunteers again and spend some time
with them. However, it was not planned and well-organised at all!!! T.I.A. I guess :D I think we
spent more time with waiting for the facilitators to arrive than with actually
evaluating our stays in the different organisations and host families.
Here some pictures:
Lina and me enjoying the sun and a good book while waiting
Lina presenting her presentation about her life in Zambia
Doreen, Frank, Steve and Terese listening
Waiting...
Waiting...
Doreen leading the evaluation of the mid term evaluation...as you maybe can guess, we had a lot of things to say :D
On the 1st of December it finally
was time for us to go to Cape Town!!! We were really looking forward to see and
experience some new things and especially to get an a bit more westernized life :)
And we are definitely NOT living an African life here!!! Cape Town or at least
the part of Cape Town we are experiencing, is more like Europe or the USA than
Africa! However, it’s an AMAZING city with nice places and lovely food and wine
:)
At the waterfront
My, happy to get some christmas feeling :)
The waterfront
Good music at the waterfront
Christmas at the waterfront
Lunch break from shopping :)
But more about this in few seconds, since the
main reason why we went to Cape Town is that we werehaving an exchange at the
University of Western Cape from the 3
rd-8
th of December.
In short, we had a really good week, with
interesting lectures about e.g. “Mega Sport Events”, “HIV/Aids and Sport”,
“Gender issues in Sport”, “Sport and community development” and “NCD’s in
developing communities” (NCD = Non communicable disease) and a nice spare time
programme e.g. consisting of Lady Gaga concert and Christmas dinner.
Here some impressions
Welcome dinner
Welcome present from UWC (University of Western Cape)
Dr. Allen presenting about Mega Sport Events
Vegard ready for lunch
Johanne, Hanne, Vegard and Ingrid presenting
On our way to the concert
Lina, Terese, Johanne and me ready for Lady Gaga
Lina, Johanne and me even more ready :)
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga
Lina packing
The self-made christmas light
My room at UWC
Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner :) Johanne, Lina and me
Enjoying Anders' speech
Nice dessert
Johanne enjoying the "Political History of
Southern Africa" lecture
Christmas :)
Ready for our holiday :)
Well, after successfully finishing our exams
Saturday afternoon, it finally was time for HOLIDAY!!!!! Yeahhhh :)
And what is/was on the programme????
In short, Sunday and Monday we played tourists
in Cape Town, were we went to the Robben Island, Table Mountain, Lion’s Head,
Clifton Beach and enjoyed a lot of nice food and good drinks :)
Here some impressions:
Ready for Robben Island
The boat
Lovely ocean
Lina and me :)
A prisoner telling about his stay
The beds
The shower
Nelson Mandela's cell
Table mountain
Nice view
Nice view
at the backpackers
Lion's head
Nice view
The group :)
Me and the table mountain
Enjoying a ncie lunch
Nice with sushi :)
uhhh, the water is cold (Johanne and Janita)
Me
Nice view
Christmas at the backpackers :)
Christmas at the backpackers :)
Tuesday it was time for us (Arnt, Vegard,
Janita, Lina, Ingrid, Johanne and me) to start our road trip to Port Elizabeth.
The first stop was at the most southern point in Africa, Cape Agulhas, were we
spent a nice evening having picnic during the sunset, enjoying some lovely fish
and enjoying the lovely beach and ocean. It is sooooo nice to see and swim in
the ocean!!!
Janita and Ingrid
Nice bedroom
The backpackers
Christmas :)
Lovely beach
Me enjoying the water
Nice lighthouse
Southernmost Tip of Africa :)
Our car
Me jumping
Nice sunset
So yeah, now we are staying in Knysna 2 nights,
going to Jeffrey’s Bay tomorrow and staying there 2 nights (and were we are
celebrating my birthday :)) and ending our trip on Sunday in Port Elizabeth :)
Lina, Arnt, Johanne and Vegard are from there travelling to Tanzania and I’m
going to drive the bus back to Cape Town with Janita and Ingrid. And the best
thing is, I’m going to meet Pascal in 5 days!!! And Patrick in 10 days and my
mum in 14 days!!!! Juhhuuuuu!!!!
In case I don’t manage to write a new post before Christmas:
I wish you all a lovely Christmas eve and day,
with a lot of good food, nice people and snow/sun (you can choose what you
prefer ;))
