Royal Swazisun Mbabane

... br><br>We saw:<br><br>Blesbok, weavers, bulbuls, widowbirds, shrikes, thrushes, lot of alpine type plants, quelea&#8217;s, squirrels, dassies, duiker, red winged starlings, ravens, crested barbets, stone chats, and sunbirds. As my Swaziland plant and animal book is in Queensland with Helen I will have to identify the plants when next in Queensland.<br><br>Tomorrow we are going back to Hlane and hopefully we shall see Mduduzi again.

... school and Lili, a girl from Bristol who is teaching here. <br><br>We had a really good night, I played a couple of tunes on the guitar and they sang along which was cool. We ended up getting quite stoned on the local weed which is really strong actually. I had not been stoned like that for a long time, expect maybe that evening with Lee and Bex! So we obviously had the giggles and paranoia was kicking in - we were taking the **** out of John who can be a bit intense at times!

... probably aren&#8217;t the same these days either, if they exist at all (they said my $20 non-refundable deposit would be good for as long as I could remember it; I wonder, hmmm&#8230;). They run mostly back-and-forth to-and-from Capetown and Jo&#8217;burg with a loop both ways on the Jo&#8217;Burg-Swaziland-Durban portion of the loop. Since most bus lines don&#8217;t take Swaziland very seriously, this then seemed like ...

... Not really. <br><br>Some areas are probably beautiful but not so easily accessible without a car and I did not spend time out of the main touristic roads, which seemed to me like an extension of South Africa. <br>One noticeable place I really liked is the "House on Fire". A place where shows and concerts take place, decorated by a British artist with the help of local artists in a Gaudi+Dali style, mosaics, eccentric towers, lights ...

... real girl&#8217;s outfit available anyways. We hadn&#8217;t seen any children dressed distinctively in Swaziland other than in school uniforms. One of the teenage girls of the village brought her a couple of bright fabrics to wrap around her, but Sophie was too shy to be in the spotlight and she repeated, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want it. I don&#8217;t want it.&#8221; With 35 people in the group surrounding her and staring she understandably felt uncomfortable. Even my ...

... Here I say hi to people and I get a lot of blank stares and so I stopped looking people in the eye b/c they often got offended. Very interesting differences. Unfortunately, the only time I did notice people be friendly to me was when they wanted something (particularly money). However I have met many wonderful local people but only in social situations where I was introduced. Many of the local expats here say that they have lived here for ...

... back and fill those spots. The problem is that Baylor only goes there 4 days per week. It seems that b/c this one Baylor doctor volunteered in, that the hospital has taken advantage of this and not hired or arranged for someone else to cover. What a shame. Really it is not good medicine. The guy that I worked with was really awesome there. We rounded on all the patients there and saw some interesting things. They had the ward separated ...

... medicines. so for malnourished babies that get admited, they get help from their mothers for feeding....so the mothers need to care for the children 24/7 when they are in the hospital. what happens to their other children and husbands at home you may ask....well looks like someone else has to come and help out the family....well whoever they have left b/c so many of the families are missing members b/c people are dying from AIDs. so we saw some interesting patients today. enough ...

... times, i walk into the room thinking that "oh here is a cute little 5 month old" and the child is really 12 months old. So I saw a 18 month old yesterday who could not walk at all. She could hold on to things and kind of walk holding on to something, but the moment you let go, she could not stand up on her own. Normal development they should walk at around 12-16 months. Furthermore today I saw another child who is 21 months and can only say ...

... Mbabane. Quite developed with the usual shopping facilities. Had Nandos for dinner before heading to Ezulwini where we're staying. Arrived just on 3. Nice to be early for once. Camp site to ourselves so we took the opportunity to sorted stuff. Discovered free wifi so spent the night on the net. Oliver very tired so he just relaxed. Tried to get on white water rafting for tomorrow but fully booked so heading to Sodwana for diving instead. Woo hoo.