(In the voice of David Attenborough) after seeing 10 lions, god knows how many giraffes and many elephants we can conclude that life in the bush is never dull. We approached many zebra crossings (a common joke made by Ian Tuer) and actually witnessed a lioness devour the innards of a dead giraffe! Our open top jeeps gave us an excellent opportunity to view the entire landscape and get many amazing shots of the wildlife. We also saw crocs and hippos who basked in the African sun and posed for our cameras, so much better than the zoo! We had four drives in total, two in the morning and two at night, that way we saw sunrise and sunset which was truly beautiful. Our early morning drives began at 6.00 am and they were truly freezing, layers and hoodies were a common sight. All in all we have had a blast with the African wildlife, we shared breakfast, lunch and dinner with a herd of buffalo next to the restaurant, I think its safe too say we will never forget it.
Written by Angharad Jenkins who was assissted by Emily Bardgett, many quotes were also taken from John Sander.
Throughout our group many relationships have been made and destroyed!
The 2011 Ullswater Community College Tanzania Adventure
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Friday, 22 July 2011
Bethsiada Orphanage
Hello all,
We have experienced very poor communication access and are very sorry for the inconsistent updates.
Today was our last day at Bethsaida we managed to plant some trees out of the 75 bought, the students were so grateful and happy to dig the hard soil to plant banana, mango, orange, pepper, paw paw, guava, lucina etc. (the students are happy to plant the others later and we have left money so they can buy vegetables) The trees will grow and give fruit to the students in time to come. The drama students put on a lovely show, showing off their many talents, English wrote some poems, the time spent with the students built up special friendships and it was hard to say goodbye especially when the students with their lovely voices sang to us, tears flowed on both sides as we departed and left wondering what will become of the friendships made.
We have experienced very poor communication access and are very sorry for the inconsistent updates.
Today was our last day at Bethsaida we managed to plant some trees out of the 75 bought, the students were so grateful and happy to dig the hard soil to plant banana, mango, orange, pepper, paw paw, guava, lucina etc. (the students are happy to plant the others later and we have left money so they can buy vegetables) The trees will grow and give fruit to the students in time to come. The drama students put on a lovely show, showing off their many talents, English wrote some poems, the time spent with the students built up special friendships and it was hard to say goodbye especially when the students with their lovely voices sang to us, tears flowed on both sides as we departed and left wondering what will become of the friendships made.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
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