During October - December 2007 and January to March 2008 I worked in Pietermaritzburg which is the capital of the Kwa-Zulu-Natal Province and is an hour north of Durban.During my first period of stay I was living with Sam our South African manager and her son in a house outside of Maritizburg which was great fun. I worked from the house as well and it was good to get into a routine again. In the morning I would go to the local gym which was about 4km away do a ...

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...

I have been working in and out of South Africa for the past 3 years in 2006, 2007 and 2008. I first started working in South Africa in January of 2006 when I first started working for Travellers. My first period of work was in Giyani a small town in the Limpopo province close to the Kruger National Park and Zimbabwe. My job there was to establish our new sports projects in a school called Khanysia which was a private school that catered for mainly black childre...