Monday 25th - Sunday 2nd October Monday morning was busier than usual, we had an amphibians class in the morning as well as a special guest lecturer that came in to do a frog and conservation talk. It was really interesting as usual with the guest lecturers and it was fascinating learning all about how the frogs are dying out because they are stressed. They have skin which is absorbent so all the horrible things that we pump into the soil is being absorbed b...

Monday 19th - Sunday 25th Our first day back from break, and we had a pretty busy day! We started the morning with going over all the safety procedures and cleaning the camp and then we proceeded to go and do rifle training. We started off with learning how to do the actual blindfolded loading test. This was different to the previous one, in that we only loaded four dummy rounds, chambered a round and then brought the rifle up into shooting position. It was...

Monday 12th - Sunday 18th Ok so Monday did not start off in the best of moods. Ben, Candace, Dan and I were at the farmhouse all day just waiting for Ben's car to get back to us, but figured they would be done by lunch because they knew we had to be at Kruger for 6pm to get in the gates. However, at 11am we got a call saying that the car had only just started to get fixed and that it probably would not be done by 3pm, so we had to make a plan of what to do if ...

Monday 5th - Sunday 11th So this week started off pretty interesting. We had lectures in the morning as usual but it was actually split into two lectures. The first one was looking through assessment sheets for the people doing the FGASA L1 exam and the SASSETA rifle exam so that we knew what to learn for the test and what to expect. Then the second part of the morning was spent learning about Immunocontraception on elephants in the Greater Makalali reserve. I...

Monday 29th - Sunday 4th So those of us doing our driving test (Dan, Candace, Sefan, Ulla, Ben, Heli and I) were up this morning at 5am so that we could head into town to book our driving test. We left at 6am and headed into Hoedspruit, then got picked up and taken to Mahala to arrive in time for the driving test centre to open. We had to wait around all morning, well for about 5 hours just so that we could book our tests. But at least they were booked for T...