Monday 22nd - Sunday 28th Ok so this week started off in the Classroom again, we studied mammals today which was alright because we were finally able to apply the knowledge that we are gaining. Then after lunch we watched a DVD about a lion pride and how they learnt to kill from a young age before being chucked out by the male and left to fend for themselves. It was kind of sad when some of them died etc but then I also felt really sad when they took down this...

Monday 15th - Sunday 22nd So even though it was nice having a week off to do whatever we wanted and go to Kruger, it was nice to get back to class on Monday morning and have everyone back home! We started the morning cleaning the classroom, the cars and just generally cleaning the camp. Then in the afternoon we had the ecology and taxonomy lectures. It was interesting studying things that I had done at university, fingers crossed I can put my degree to good u...

Friday 5th - Sunday 14th Ok so Friday was revision day as usual. The test this week is on Navigation & Orientation and Trees. The exam wasn't to be too stressfull this week as we managed to get around not haiving to learn all the latin names and identify the trees this week, instead we will do it in a month or so. Pretty lucky! We were given the results back from the Bird test, I managed a respectable 81%, which surprised me a lot as the last time I was ...

Friday July 29th - Thursday 4th Ok so this week has been pretty good so far. On Friday we were up and revising by about 8.30 am for the looming bird test on Saturday which we were all dreading. I spent nearly all day sat at the kitchen table learning all the ten brood parasites, the twenty odd nest types and examples and a whole load of other crazy lists of things like flight patterns and feeding types of the birds. But evidently all the learning and quizzing ...

location is actually greater makalali private game reserve, so this is the closest i can get...basically you get the idea... Week 3 - 22/ 07/11 Friday - 28/07/11 Thursday Friday was a bit hectic, we got woken up by Margaux making us get up and revise for our test on Saturday, so we had to pull ourselves out of bed and get the day started. It was not as much studying like the course last time, but it was still hard trying to learn it all. Us girls sat by the poo...