Birchwood Executive Hotel Boksburg

... Juba
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11-Apr-10
14-Apr-10
Uganda
Kampala
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14-Apr-10
21-Apr-10
Rwanda and Burundi
Kigali and Bujumbura
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21-Apr-10
01- May-10
Ghana
Accra, Komasi
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01-May-10
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... d'adolescente. Je ne pouvais parler à personne de sexualité, c'est comme une insulte ici, alors j'ai fait mes mauvaises expériences par moi-même. Et me suis retrouvée enceinte de ma fille à 20 ans.


Un de tes frères est mort du Sida. Quelle est ton opinion sur le fait que l'Afrique du sud soit l'un des pays où ce fléau continue de progresser le plus vite?

Mon frère était du genre à se dire qu'un homme a le droit d'avoir plusieurs maîtresses, c'est ...

... e.g. warthog, ostrich,impala etc. anyway you get the drift. The food though different was not distasteful, but not something I would eat every day. Back to the coach which was parked 2 blocks away for our trip to Sunnyside Park Hotel where we had dinner and I tried to get our computer on line.This is a whole story ...

... for 7 days we felt like we were leaving friends. Sure the staff should behave that way but they actually went for and beyond. We did promise ourselves we would be back though. When we started to leave Hazyview we saw a small shop selling t-shirts. An urgent requirement for Amy's boyfriend but no luck unfortunately. Back on R40 south towards Nelspruit. We came in one way and we're headed out ...

... only major cities in the world not built near a river or ocean port. The city is the most southern and the most elevated major city in the world, with an altitude higher than Denver. Besides the jet lag, the altitude takes some getting used to. We lucked out finding The Westcliff available on hotels.com. We have luxury accommodations, a great location, and a magnificent view of the forested hillsides and the Johannesburg Zoo. Our first morning we ...

... want to meet me there in 2010??). We didnt stay long enough to see anything else in the city but I'm sure I'll be back :-) One quick note. We get mixed reactions from people when they learn we're PC volunteers. Some seem ambivalent while others are very enthusiastic and thank us (which seems odd because we havent done anything yet). My ...

Jen and I woke up early for our "bush walk" today, which turned out to be utterly disappointing. We saw more animals on the way to our walk than actually on it. We did get to learn more about the medicinal use of many trees such as the toilet paper tree, the tooth brush bush and the "runs" tree, but I had been hoping for something more that maybe would require ...

... neighborhoods that were developed under apartheid. Soweto is infamous as the neighborhood that spawned the initial apartheid protests as well as some of the violent responses from the police. We were all prepared for the worst on our way to Soweto. However, seeing it in real life actually did alot to dispel the stereotype. Soweto, with 5 million people, is actually a fairly nice suburb of Jo'burg. There are paved streets, electricity, water, etc. Yes ...

About 6am another awful din began. This time I was awake enough and there was enough light for me to see what was going on. I leapt out of bed and looked out the window. There, right outside was a baboon walking towards the window. I could see that the kitchen windows were wide open and thought the baboon was likely heading into the house. I stood up and waved my arms about making grunting and hollering noises. The animal took off and I ...

October 8 - Durban Hmmm, what can we say about Durban? After a short stop at the shopping mall down the street to replenish some supplies, we headed back to the hostel. Since it was pretty cloudy and looked like it would rain at any second, we decided to forgo the beach. Other than hitting a local pub for a pint and to watch a World Cup qualifying soccer game, we spent the majority of the day catching up on our journal and emails. Pretty lame, but sometimes, a day of doing nothing is ...