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November 2007
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well here i am again with out a computer at home and still unable to add my pictures.. they sit nicely on a cd now and wait to be seen.. i think if i looked at them right now i might get a bit teary because it's hard to look at places that you have been to and not wish to just jump right back in to that picture again.. back in melbourne.. have just come back from an exhausting eight day safari in a massive overland truck all the way up to the ethiopian border from nairobi, with sixteen others including the chef, driver and guide..
went around about four national reserves and two game drives with highlights being a male lion standing two metres from our truck, staring at us all, before going on his way past the truck to cross the road.. seeing giraffes run.. a family of hyenas running together.. cheetahs and vultures eating after a kill.. a large family of elephants holding on to each other's tails (with the little ones in between the adults), all crossing a river carefully at dusk.. babboons and monkeys pissing on our tents.. four adult elephants that came each evening to check out our snoring whilst we slept blissfully unaware in our tents (only to discover that we actually had a night watchman who chased the elephants off away from our tents each night).. Marsabit park with its volcanic craters and fertile landscape.. making it all the way to the slightly more arabic looking Kalacha township near the northern border and checking out ethiopian church paintings and a trip to a creepy and deceptive oasis and following the lion paw prints leading through.. taking pictures amongst the two decomposing camels whose corpses lay in the vicinity of the eerie oasis.. eleven hours of driving over the rocky outerspace landscape of the Chalbi desert to get to Kalacha and jumping in a watertank for a makeshift swimming pool in the desert.. getting stuck in the sand dunes of the desert past Kalacha and picking up a random tribesman to give him a lift to the nearest town (hours away).. hip hip hoorah finally making it to the jade sea of the lake turkana, and meeting the tough and warlike Turkana tribe where the women wear amazing hairdos, shaving both sides of their head and leaving a plaited mohawk down the centre of their skulls.. giving away my favourite shirt to one of the turkana girls who asked for it.. inadvertently meeting half the town of Loyangali and meeting everyone who appeared as an actor or extra in 'the constant gardener' film.. dancing with the Samburu tribe dancing with the Turkana tribe too many close encounters with giant spiders.. being saved by Taea who swiped my knee with her backpack as a giant spider ran up my leg.. only to find that my turkana hut was festering with the giant bastards, hearing them screeching and squeaking in the morning hours and then finding several crawling up the walls when i flashed my torch light over to check before entering.. me screaming a horrific noise that sent the entire Turkana villagers nearby sprinting to my rescue, being consoled by the women, having the men frantically searching and scaring away the spiders from the hut, and then having the local medicine man console me and make me do a little dance with him to cure my one and only true phobia.. having all the villagers think the incident was hilarious, whilst the rest of the safari group were on edge as half the group were afraid of spiders whilst we had already suffered one panic attack the same day as our unsturdy boat headed well in to the crocodile infested waters of lake turkana.. then finding out that the hut next door had scorpions.. now i start my sea turtle conservation project tomorrow, and i sit in a luxurious Kenya hotel in Mombasa (cold showers, mosquito nets, hard bed with browned and frayed linen, and western toilet cost a dime in Kenya for some reason..) but hey, TIA this is africa or as we liked to phrase on the safari trip 'that is soooo typical of kenya !' surrounded by friendly but really young kids who have just hopped off their planes in their lovely clean and expensive gear, and i am covered in red dirt. så nå blir jeg kjempe sliten fra en hytta tur på denne siste helgen, og så jeg koser meg hjemme i dag.. ( Ser mer bilder ) over the weekend, alice and i stayed at her family's hut on an island near our island (hinnøya) ( mer.. ) Current Mood:
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cheerfulthis is from my fifteen year old brother  hi darling, just reading mums letter and im glad your still thinking about a drama course, as your brother would say, well i would say nothing but a thumbs up and a wink from my eye would be made in all gratitude to your decision. well enough about you lets talk about me, just started the second term of school, so very exciting!! nothing really changed at school but i'm looking forward to the band camp at the end of term, i'm going to adelaide. started local football again for tarwin and i enjoyed the first game when we played burra. my amazing musical skills and going swimmingly, the piano is played wonderfully every day, i assure you of this! unbelievable amazing news!!!! guns n roses are coming down to oz and im super excited!!!! mother shall buy me and the other sibling (ben) tickets and we shall have one hell of a night. the concert will be at rod laver on the night of your birthday! i will put my following questions in a easy to read dot form,
well lovely to write to thee, bye bye petey-pie
just a little before i went to Oslo, i spent several days in Trondheim. Trondheim is considered a northern city, that's because anything beyond Trondheim is pretty much considered frontier wilderness (and that well and truly includes Harstad)... Current Mood:
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 awakeoh oh what to do when you are a volunteer at a dog sled race ??
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