Monday 24th - Sunday 30th On Monday everything was back to normal, the boys all had to shave their holiday beards, we were all out in uniform and the camp had to be cleaned up and prepared for the coming month. There was meant to be a game drive in the afternoon but Sophie, the head of Bushwise came to visit us and have a talk about the course, so we sat out with her in the boma having a chat instead. The visit was meant to be to help improve the course etc an...

Monday 17th- Sunday 23rd So the week off officially started with not a lot happening. Once again we were still waiting on the Chico to come back from the ICU sp spent the day attempting to do some work, but the anticipation of the car coming back was just too much, so very little was achieved. Eventually around 5pm the car came back to Ben and the four of us ventured into town to enjoy a nice evening out. After finishing with the shopping we took a drive t...

Monday 10th - Sunday 16th This week wad officially the last week of rifles, and I could not be happier! No more sitting in the heat of the day for hours on end. Lovely! So this week started off with a short game drive in the morning. We didn't see much but it was nice to get out for a bit. Then we came back for breakfast and proceeded to the airstrip for a bit of rifle training. Today we were practicing a simulated lion charge. So two people holding ropes fo...

Monday 3rd - Sunday 9th So this week has been all about rifles again! After our lectures on conservation management and human habitation in South Africa we had lunch and then went off down to the drainage line at the other end of the reserve to get on with our next exercise. Today was exercise three again (the 15m, 10m, 5m) I passed it first time with an almost perfect score 38/40! We spent most of the afternoon there until about 3pm when the game drives fo...

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...