May and June 2009

This was an awesome group of students brought to us through Kersey (July 08 25 day programme) and Prof Morty Ortega. These were all university students busy with under graduate, masters or PHD programmes and they cam out to us for a taste of Africa with a serious learning bent!

This was one of the most fun groups we have ever experienced, and certainly the most diligent, as they wrote down every word uttered by a lecturer, certainly causing us to think before we spoke. We learned a huge amount from them, and they from us, and also had some amazing questions thrown into the mix.

Morty has decided that this course was a fantastic experience for his students, with every aspect from food and accommodation, to lectures and game veiwing being professionally handled. And not to mention that everyone had a really fun time, with loads of great memories for the future.

The whole group up on the plateau. Does it look cold to you?

Lee, Ian and Ed.

Now meet the whole gang at brunch in our little bush camp, always a good time to photograph people, as we all know, when they have a mouth full of food!

Chelsea, Justina, Matt, Emily and Josh….and…

…Amanda K, Daniella, Acima, Betsy and Kelly….and…

…Katie, Jess, Jared, Amanda J and Lindsey…

…Yahri, Kersey, Melissa and Morty!

Plenty of lectures and lessons took place with lecturers form all over the country, covering many diverse topics such as elephant management, archaeology, cheetah research, vegetation plot counts and much, much more…

See newsletter Number 2 for some of the adventures such as caving at Makapansgat with the usual caving suspects…