teaching in south africa

salut mes amis!
event after event happened here in my little life in little chintsa. it is quite amazing how so much can happen in an a place that is not even a real village. or maybe it is one, but it’s still amazing.
so here’s the story. i was diagoned with guttatae psoriasis. the impetigo skin infection turned out to be a completely wrong diagnose. that i found out when i went to see a horrendously expensive dermatologist in east london. but now i am finally getting rid of that horrible ugly rash which was covering my whole body. it was beyond ugly actually. Read the rest of this entry »

hello i am so excited i have to post this here urgently! i am flying to uganda for 10 days on 19th of september. completely crazy because it’s sooo expensive and 10 days will never be enough…but never mind, it’s worth it because i am going to see raphi and experience something new! juppppiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! i could sing and dance and scream and make double flicflacs because i am sooooo happy :)!
have a great weekend!
sonja

…würdi mi zuestand momentan beschribe.
i ha mi entscheide, für einisch uf berndütsch ds schribe. erschtens, damit o die wo im Änglische nid so deheime se öppis verstöh und zwöitens, dass is nid verlehre. i triffe zwar geng wieder mal e schwizer a, aber de losi mir aube selber zue und es tönt ganz komisch.
o am telefon muess i mi aube wieder chli dra gwöhne, i rede hie geng nume englisch oder dütsch mit de 2 steffis.
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Hello,
here come some more pictures. i am becoming a bit better with uploading them but i still kind of suck…:)so i typed in all these funny comments on who is in the picture, but they don’t appear now. i spent hours over it so it must do like this for now. Basically you can see the vollies of the first group, the lion cubs at the game reserve, some of my pupils on our field trip to nahoon nature reserve, pictures of our fundraising night at buccs where we collected money for electricity bills in Bulugha school and a couple of birthday pictures…
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hello my friends,

i am alive. just very busy in the last week because mike is on holiday. quite challenging without him but more responsability for me (greed!). just got out of bed today after spending a long weekend in there with a nasty throat infection. went to see the doc on saturday morning, he was not very happy with what he saw and he put me on 3(!) antibiotics. that should help…what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger as we say. Read the rest of this entry »

yep yep- i am back and i will tell you what is going on here. just a short resumee… Read the rest of this entry »

I admit i disappeared on you for a while…you won’t believe how busy it is to work as a volunteer!
Let me give you an update on what’s happened in the past few days… Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, found some time to upload some pics. still working on my blogging skills and have to find oot how to name them so you know what you are looking at. anyways for now this has to do. you will se pictures of the school i work at, the kids, their recreation area and some of my co- volunteers. the scenary is in and around cintsa…enjoy the way i do :)!
cheers!

From very quiet to pretty lively went my every day life here in SA.
On Monday all the other vollies came in and on tuesday we all went on a wild coast trip. They took us on a bus and we went to loads of remote and beautiful places. Mike gave those who had just arrived a breakdown on south african history and culture and everyone is quite impressed. There are English, Australian, Canadian, Dutch, German and Danish on the program…and me of course. We got to stay in a little village with a Xhosa family and spent the night sleeping in a mud hut, as they call them here. Just picture an african hut as you would imagine it to look like and that’s what it was…We ate traditional food, danced to kwaito (soth african music)with the kids and had a short night because of all the animals makeing funny noises…was great though and a nice experience. Read the rest of this entry »

These couple of days have been pretty eventful.
I am feeling more and more at home even though it is still a bit lonely in my house. But this week end the other volunteers have arrived and are still arriving today so it’s getting a bit busier over here. The volunteers are still staying at Buccaneers, the backpackers across the lagoon, so it’s always very empty and quiet when i come home. But Nomakweze, the housekeeper moved in today and she went shopping as well…so it’s getting better and better! Read the rest of this entry »