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Friday Dec 01, 2006

Holiday!

 

This is just a quick one to say that I leave to go travelling tomorrow, so I'm not sure how much internet access I'll have for the next 6 weeks. Don't know if they have many internet cafes in the wilds of Botswana!

School's all finished up for the summer; my Christmas play didn't go too badly, despite the Wise Men refusing to give Jesus the gifts and a sheep's costume falling apart. Oh, and there was a slight confusion with one of the costumes; the Afrikaans words kameel and kameelperd are, respectively, camel and giraffe. The cutest and smallest of my camels misunderstood his instructions and only realised his mistake at the last minute, ensuing in this conversation:

“Miss Lucy, is my camel costume ok?”

“Yeah, it looks great.”

“....It's a giraffe, isn't it?”

“Yes, Shareef. Yes, it is.”

Anyway, our holiday plans: We're first going up to the north of Namibia as we haven't seen that much of the rest of the country, and we're going to visit Marcel's old project in Onayena. It's a tiny village outside Ondangwa, so we're going to go there too and also probably to Oshakati as that's the biggest city in the north.

We're then going to head down to South Africa and meet up with more volunteers there, and after travelling along the coast we'll spend Christmas and New Year in Cape Town. We want to try and get to Mossel Bay, where there's the biggest bungee jump in the world. On 3^rd January we're going to go back up through Botswana, ending up in Maun from where we'll go back across to Windhoek then home to Lüderitz again.

Hopefully.

I've got to say, I'm looking forward to spending Christmas on a beach in Cape Town... I hope everyone back in the UK isn't suffering from the cold too badly!

Posted by Lucy Hayes ( 6:54 AM )
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