It is now coming to the end of my first placement in Africa, and hence I’ve been away nearly four weeks! Can’t believe how quickly time has gone so far! Typically my final day here and I had to go to the doctors this morning as I’ve managed to get ‘acute tonsillitis’ – not much fun. Managed to get some anti-biotics and have been told to rest… mentioned my plane flight tomorrow but as long as I take it easy over I’ll recover no problems! Anyway, he...

Week two update: Been another great and very busy week here! I am trying my best to update the blog with pictures but they take ages to upload - hopefully you've had a giggle at some of the ones that have made it! This week we have had a lot more animal sightings involving lions, buffalo and an incredible cheetah encounter. We have cheetahs on the reserve that are collared so we can monitor them - they are very tame though so when we find them we can actua...

Hey all! First update on what I’ve been up to – internet is very limited at the reserve as is mobile signal so in general I am cut off from the outside world, but we will be going into town once a week so I can get access to emails etc then. Anyway what a first week! Can’t believe how quickly it has gone and very quickly I have settled into life on Pidwa reserve. I arrived Monday afternoon after a smooth journey over, was picked up from the airport and tra...