Friday 23rd August- Goodbye Kindergatten, hello Safari

Some of my class who had came in to say goodbye.

After breakfast Katie and I headed to Kinderkatten to see the teachers and some students one last time. Summer school had finished yesterday so only a few students were in so that they could collect their reports and exam results. At school I helped to remove desks from classrooms that had been leant by nearby schools in order to help Kinderkatten accommodate the large influx of students coming for the week.

The majority of my P4 class had turned up to say good bye to me which was upsetting. My favourites Maxim, Shivon, Moses and Martin were all there. I had written a message on the board to the class saying thank you to the class. Shivon had given me a bag of 18 avocadoes and Moses’ father came in to thank me, and the rest of my class gave me goodbye letters. I played football with Maxim and Owen for a bit before I went to the hall to check out the reports and exams.

Goodbye

At 12 o clock the VU van arrived to take me back to the lodge and then to the safari. Before getting in the van I said good bye to all the teachers and students and gave Martin my old Barcelona shirt as thanks for bringing my bag to me yesterday. I’m really sad about leaving all the staff and students but I will write to the school when I’m back in the UK.

Avocados

Back at the lodge we had a quick lunch before getting into the vans to the safari. The journey was roughly 2 and half hours and on the way we stopped off at a supermarket where I bought some cheap interesting looking alcohol. We arrived at a campsite owned by a nice but odd Kenyan guy. We set up all our tents and had a quick drink before going back into the vans to start going around the Queen Elizabeth safari. We would stay in these vans for the whole safari, I was with: Dec, Kate, Alice, Robyn, Erica, Freddie, Kya and Team leader Tom (TLT). After roughly 20 minutes of seeing nothing but Cobs (gazelle) we came upon a tree under which was a small pride of lions, we were only 10 metres or so from the pride. We stayed by the tree for a while but the lions were just lying around, occasionally yawning and rolling over. A cob came into view roughly 200 metres from the pride which attracted their interest, but they were clearly not hungry as they only stared at the Cob and made no move.

Lions

From the lions we headed to a river bank where we knew hippos would be bathing. We all got out of the vans and sat on the grass by some bushes watching the hippos in the water 20 metres from us. From the hippos we carried on driving around seeing buffalo and cobs until we went back to the lions which had only moved a few metres from the tree.

Back at the campsite we got ready for dinner which would be a BBQ on the side of the river which goes through the camp. We had mash, spaghetti and lots of goat skewers before going to bed around 11pm due to the 5am start tomorrow.