A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A KLIPKOP VOLUNTEER Here's an idea of what it's like to volunteer here at Klipkop Conservancy. We are suppose to be ready for 8:30 am mon-fri. This never happens and it usually between 8:30-9:30 before we're heading out for the morning's tasks. We work until noon. The work varies from soil erosion work, fence maintenance, game couints, water management and testing, work shops etc. The past 2 days (not counting today as it is ...

So Emily, Mando and I went on a tour of Johannesburg and Soweto today, and then finished off the day with a trip to the Apartheid museum. The tour of Johannesburg was neat and I was glad to see it because I would never go there on my own as it is dangerous...you get robbed blind there. You go in with car and money and come out without car, valuables and shoes. No joke. We went through some of the poor areas that gives the city its bad name...very cool, you litera...

Well, I'm really enjoying my stay thus far here in South Africa. The routine here at the reserve is good, not too hard, but enough to keep you busy and pooped at the end of the day. By 8:30 am we are up and ready for work (usually hahah, but not really, 9 am kicks around and we're usually still getting our asses in grear....).8:30-4pm we do work on the reserve with a one hr lunch break. Sometimes we do workshops instead of work (for example today we did o...

Hey!! Everything is good. Africa is pretty neat. The other volunteers are all really nice. There are two girls from England, and a guy and girl from the states, the girl being my roommate. She has been here the longest out of the volunteers and is my roomie which works well for me! The heat here is incredible! The evenings are much more tolerable and the sunsets are amazing, very beautiful. Last night we went on our anti-poaching night drive, which is done about...

Well its my last few hours in Frankfurt. I´m flying to south africa tonight on a 13 hour plane ride (booo). I saw all of the ´must sees´in frankfurt, walked around for hours and did a little shopping since the stores were finally open! I´ve really enjoyed Frankfurt, its a really cool city. Germans are very nice and most of them speak broken english. I took a bunch of cool pics today but can´t upload them until I get settled in in afr...