Its my last day in Swaziland today and I really don't want to leave! I've been having such a good time and have met so many cool people. Last week I was meant to be going to the orphanage but because of various reasons I didn't go until Friday. When we turned up we were introduced to all the children and told about why some of them have ended up there, one girl has such bad burns on her face and its because her parents thought she was a witch and so...

Helllooo everyone, how is everybody?? I've had such a good week this week. I've been pretty much joined at the hip with another volunteer-Gemma, who has been organising a sports day for 700 children at the school she's been teaching at. She's probably the scattiest person I've ever met so I've been her right hand woman and have been helping her get everything organised. We worked so hard all week, we had so many tedious jobs to do includi...

Hey everyone! I'm back from Songimvelo game reserve where I've been for two weeks with two other volunteers. We were the first volunteers to go there so when we arrived there were tins of paint for us to paint the whole house with and cleaning equipment for us to clean the whole house and make it livable in. It wasn't fun. Aswell as cleaning and painting a whole house, we had to go on random searches for lizards so we could take pictures of them and...

Hey everyone, how is sunny England?Africa is soo cool! I've just spent the last five days in Kruger park which was amazing. We had to get up at 4.00am every morning because thats when it's cool enough for the animals to be out in the open so now I'm pretty tired out, even though I just sat in a kombi all day looking for animals. I nearly got killed by an elephant though. When I work out how to put photos on here you can see how close we were to them. ...