It was the last day of our scuba diving Open Water course and I would probably rank it as one of the top 10 days in my life. I still can’t believe it really took place, it did indeed feel like it was a bit too good to be true and I feel extremely privileged and […]
It was Day 3 of the scuba diving course, and it was time to take our first breaths in the ocean. We packed all our gear and loaded them in a car before we headed off to Long Beach. Once we got there we got dressed in our way too small and tight wet suits and assembled […]
It was Wednesday and Day 2 of my scuba diving course! We started by getting all our gear sorted. For those of you who aren’t too familiar with scuba diving this is what you need: A BCD : this is the ‘backpack’ you wear when you scuba dive, which can be inflated or deflated and […]
Hello! Last week, I had one of the best weeks of my life. It has been like living a dream and I’ve enjoyed every moment of it! I thought I would share my week with you day by day because there has been a lot going on! Just to brake it to you, I did […]
Finally after lots of internet problems – here’s a lot for all of you to read! Like Karen Blixen’s movie was called Mitt Africa, My Africa in Norwegian, I wanted to share some of my thoughts after working 5 weeks at a children’s home in a township, to share My Africa. It’s quite an essay, but I […]
It’s Monday today and on Friday I had my last day at Fikelela, after a total of 5 weeks there. It was incredibly sad having to say good bye to all the children and Ed and Heather practically had to drag me into the car. I will miss each and every one of the children so […]
Sunday morning Lucy, Sylvia, Tina, Helene and I were driving around the streets of Cape town at 5:30 am!! We were going kayaking and seeing as it was 6am, we got to see the sunrise! Heather’s son Aiden and Ed also came with us and what a morning it was! There wasn’t a cloud on […]
Alex and I got to see something pretty cool the other day – an 89 year old woman being loved and cuddled by a chimpanzee – Pat’s beloved chimpanzee, Kalu! Pat usually goes to see Kalu every day at 3pm, but because we’re at Fikelela at that time, I asked if she could go in […]
You can’t go to Cape Town and not go to Robben Island, so after 5 weeks over here, Alex and I had booked tickets to go there on Saturday. We hadn’t exactly taken into consideration that Friday was Halloween, and so we trotted down to the Waterfront Saturday morning with a slight headache being quite […]
Hello everyone! Last week, Alex and I were very busy with the children every afternoon. Now that Alex had arrived, it was easier to do various activities with the children because well there’s about 20 of them (the older children) and there was one of me so … chaos! But now that he is here we actually […]
Anna Thomassen 