My brother's travels
Dear my favourite family,
I shall try to keep this email short so that it won't end up on a certain someone's blog =)
It's great that my big brother is enjoying the course. I always love being with idealistic people - it makes you that much more motivated. I might be taking off to a little village 13 hours away to help with some building or teaching or something. Really want to do something off the tourist track while I'm here.
There're so many opportunities for MSF-type things here in Africa. Hmm...too 'bad' I didn't actually contract malaria back in June, although one of my friends from Canada who is in Tanzania did. I fought off 3 muggers armed with knives though, does that kind of balance the scales?
Went travelling down the Garden Route (the 800km-ish stretch of Coast east of Cape Town which rounds off the Southern most tip of Africa. Did a lot of things, from crawling through the Cango Caves, hiked a few trails in Tsitsikamma National Park, piloted a houseboat around the Knysna Lagoon, Bungee Jumped of the Bloukrantz Bridge - the highest in the world at 261m, and saw some elephants, kudus, lions, zebras, buffalos, etc in the Addo National Park.
Yeap, I had a one week break. Photos will follow soon, I guess. Internet here is so slow, and I'm a bit apprehensive about carrying my *sniff* new camera around after my favourite one got stolen.[In that mugging]
Really feel like I should be doing more 'African' things while I'm here - most of the people I've been hanging out with are Americans, Canadians and Europeans, and although travelling with them is fun, I feel that I'm probably missing out on the real Africa. So, might go venturing out alone to the rural bushlands or something, not sure yet. Have a feeling mama might not be too amused though =)
On a more serious note, how are things in Thailand? I heard about the bombings in Haadyai. More recently, the military coup launched by Gen Sondhi Boonyaratklin in Bangkok might be a cause for concern. Isn't he the muslim guy in charge of handling the siutation in the South? Not such a great track record eh?
Anyhow, gonna go get ready to go eat. A friend promised to cook Korean Bbq (YAY free food!). Hope everyone is doing well - Che, let me know your travel plans once they are finalized - might ask you to bring a thing or two =)
Love,
Lil bro/son/cousin/nephew/something
I shall try to keep this email short so that it won't end up on a certain someone's blog =)
It's great that my big brother is enjoying the course. I always love being with idealistic people - it makes you that much more motivated. I might be taking off to a little village 13 hours away to help with some building or teaching or something. Really want to do something off the tourist track while I'm here.
There're so many opportunities for MSF-type things here in Africa. Hmm...too 'bad' I didn't actually contract malaria back in June, although one of my friends from Canada who is in Tanzania did. I fought off 3 muggers armed with knives though, does that kind of balance the scales?
Went travelling down the Garden Route (the 800km-ish stretch of Coast east of Cape Town which rounds off the Southern most tip of Africa. Did a lot of things, from crawling through the Cango Caves, hiked a few trails in Tsitsikamma National Park, piloted a houseboat around the Knysna Lagoon, Bungee Jumped of the Bloukrantz Bridge - the highest in the world at 261m, and saw some elephants, kudus, lions, zebras, buffalos, etc in the Addo National Park.
Yeap, I had a one week break. Photos will follow soon, I guess. Internet here is so slow, and I'm a bit apprehensive about carrying my *sniff* new camera around after my favourite one got stolen.[In that mugging]
Really feel like I should be doing more 'African' things while I'm here - most of the people I've been hanging out with are Americans, Canadians and Europeans, and although travelling with them is fun, I feel that I'm probably missing out on the real Africa. So, might go venturing out alone to the rural bushlands or something, not sure yet. Have a feeling mama might not be too amused though =)
On a more serious note, how are things in Thailand? I heard about the bombings in Haadyai. More recently, the military coup launched by Gen Sondhi Boonyaratklin in Bangkok might be a cause for concern. Isn't he the muslim guy in charge of handling the siutation in the South? Not such a great track record eh?
Anyhow, gonna go get ready to go eat. A friend promised to cook Korean Bbq (YAY free food!). Hope everyone is doing well - Che, let me know your travel plans once they are finalized - might ask you to bring a thing or two =)
Love,
Lil bro/son/cousin/nephew/something
posted by smathi @ 9:33 am
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