Whilst working in Cape Town I decided on spending a long weekend in Namibia. Where I was living in Cape Town Observatory in Nelly's Lodge there was lots of other long term students or people working their like myself so I found a few people to go with a Dutch guy, 2 Swedish girls and a German girl. On Friday morning at 7am we set off from Cape Town in the Dutch guys car and headed for the border of Namibia. We all took it in turns to drive heading up towards th...

I have been to work in Knysna 4 times all for various lengths of time over the 3 years I have been in SA. Knysna is a very touristy town which waterfront thrives on tourism. It is a small town as well which is easy to navigate and you easily start to find your way around. I was living in a house which overlooked the Knysna Lagoon and was a stunning big wooden house. Monkeys were frequent visitors to the house and one time I was watching TV and I could see a mon...

In September/October 2006 I spent around a month working in Cape Town. Cape Town is very touristy compared to the rest of the regions of the country I had worked in. I went to work in Cape Town to establish a new sports project. I was living in Nelly's lodge which is in the Observatory area of Cape Town and where our volunteers are based as well as a lot of international students. Living in the lodge was amazing as there was a lot of different people to inter...

During my first year working in Africa I had the opportunity to work in Ghana twice, the first time was in May 2006 for around a month and then again in July/August for around 6 weeks. This was my first time to west Africa and it was quite different to the northern, eastern and southern parts of Africa I had been to. The reason why I went to Ghana was to establish new sports projects for our volunteers in Accra the capital of Ghana. There were a number of volun...

In 2006 whilst spending my first year in Africa I went to work in Mombassa in Kenya which is on the east coast of Kenya and surrounded by beautiful beaches. I had 2 trips to Kenya in May and July and only stayed for around 3 weeks in total in Kenya so for me it they were short visits. During my visit to Kenya I lived with 2 different local family's which our volunteers stay at. Both houses were in the city centre of Mombassa and were with women who were very we...