Airport Sun Intercontinental Johannesburg

... through Manzini and Mbabane and on towards the Ngwenya Border Post. The officials at both border posts were very pleasant and we had our passports stamped with another 3 month visa to stay in South Africa until January 2010. Oh how we wished that we could, but we had our flight booked for 9th October back to the UK.<br><br>The drive from Ngwenya to Jo'burg was really pleasant, with some absolutely lovely ...

... in time to catch our flight.<br><br>However, Sarah went to the bathroom right before boarding, and all of a sudden the flight attendants started yelling at Lindsey and Brittany that they had to leave her behind and get on the flight. She reappeared in the nick of time and still made it on the flight. She probably wouldn't have been that disappointed if she had to stay in South Africa, and we were all wishing we had more time to spend there.

... museum. An interesting bit of trivia is that the street with this house is also the same street where Archbishop Desmond Tutu grew up making it the only street in the world to have raised two Nobel Prize winners. We also had a look around the Soweto uprising museum which was very interesting. Friday night we had a few drinks in the hostel bar which was a lot busier than the previous night because of all the Lions' fans there for the game. We stayed up quite late talking to ...

... Delta uit te komen. Bart heeft de langste strompelmarathon ooit gelopen en ik ben grote delen zelfs gedragen. Flink genant, maar erop lopen was vrijwel niet te doen. Maar het is gelukt! We zitten inmiddels in Johannesburg waar we op bezoek zijn bij Lou en Hennie die we in Bolivia ontmoet hebben. Onze georganiseerde toer zit erop. Met een groep reizen is heel anders dan met z'n 2-en waar je alles zelf kan bepalen. Het reistempo lag best hoog waardoor we veel in de truck ...

... ways of thinking die hard, sad as that is. Anyway continueing on, Meegan had a knife that she got out afterwards and now has given it to me as she is going home and won't be needing it. I think this was a good wake up call to be even more careful then I have been, although i've been as careful as possible when in Jo'burg and now here, you really don't worry about going out in the day time to a tourist area and worry about kids robbing you! Had they been men we would ...

... lamb chops, and steak. There's 9 volunteers here for the month, and I am one of 2 males. It definitely works out well for me, because males and females are in separate rooms unless traveling as a couple, and Michael is here with his girlfriend (= PRIVATE ROOM for me!!). Got up at around 9 this morning, and after having a quick breakfast, we had an orientation with Mary, who is one of the founders of Klipkop conservancy along with Tony. After that we piled ...

... gararge - amazing place. As some of the patients lose all contact with family and friends as there is still so much stigma attached to being HIV+ or having the Aids virus, we arranged to come back on xmas day and spend some time with them - bring them some plants for the ward and some art games for them to play. Unfortunately I then got sick with sinusitus which I was taking herbal drugs for, so I was not able to go - as they told us over the phone that ...

... and testing more easily available, and tackle mother-to-child transmission." With government help slow or absent, Drysdale's focus has turned to setting up a 'community NGO' and exploring empowerment ideas such as 'patient' vouchers held by outpatients who surrender them only when visited by a community health care volunteer. As for non-existent ART, Drysdale has this satirical response; "If they gave us ART free of charge tomorrow all we could hope to do is put it in a ...