hi! the first real placement has taken place... cotlands hospice today, as i reckon most days i'm there, i was working with gemma - a really nice 23 year old girl who has been travelling and working EVERYWHERE over the past 2 years! we were picked up at our uni at 8 o'clock, yes i did manage to be on time you know suprising as it may seem lol, and we were driven to cotlands. we were then introduced to the place again which i have to say was actually quite...

hiya peeps! been a couple of days since my last one and i finally have some more to report... today we received our timetables from dineo (our rep out here for those of you who dont know) for the next 2 weeks... some ppl are a bit miffed about theirs unfortunately but i'm quite pleased with mine altho i would've liked to do a bit of the teaching work at the skl but i'm already doing kayamandi which is similar to that so overall quite pleasing. my schedule...

heya guys! i start this one off with a follow up to some "complaints" regarding my use of "lol"... some are finding this difficult to make out and therefore for your benefit... the definition of "lol": laugh out loud / hee hee / etc... hope thats cleared things up a bit! :o) this journal entry wont be a long one (yes... i do hear you gasp!) but as of yet i have no new news to report... i'm still waiting on my timetable to see which projects i wil...

Day 3 Part 2 (as promised): yesterday in the afternoon we had our first kayamandi visit! this is a place where young kids can go after school so basically from 2-3 o'clock to have extra help... it is wonderful to see because they all go by choice and therefore are soooo eager to be there and learn. it is part of a bigger group called ISOS which i think i told you about yesterday. its another student group who volunteer in this project and set it up... there were ...

hey everybody!!! my first entry from stellenbosch... sounds scary doesnt it! is scary lol! i've just managed to delete the last copy of this entry i had practically finished which was really stupid so lets have another crack at it!!! Day 1 (this is confusing cos my day/time clock is soooo mucked up from the flight!). we started off on the way to the airport with my bag, i swear, weighing practically more than me!!! dad ofcourse was taking all sorts of A...