The endangered...the majestic...the African Ground Hornbill

 Elephant

Baby baboon!

Hyena 

Giraffe

Munyamana Primary School workday

Hello, World

I'm alive! And here's an update on the past few weeks...also we haven't had internet for weeks and it has been great but sorry for the delay on cool pics.

We left Wits Rural and went to Hamakuya. We stayed at Tshulu camp, a tourist camp super close to the Zimbabwe border outside of the park. Our homestays happened during our Hamakuya trip and the pics are below! I was with Kelly, Megan, Lizzie, and Asinne (our guide) at the lovely home of our homestay mom, Virginia. It was awesome and we learned tons about Venda culture and day to day life like gathering firewood, water, cooking pup (corn meal-ish stuff), making manure floor, cooking more pup, and more. There were loads of kids who danced and played with us for hours on end and I definitely had my share of hand-holding, probably enough for the next twenty years. They definitely laughed at us every time we tried to pronounce anything or greet them in the traditional Venda way ("ahhhh"), but it was a great time.

Mopane worms for dinner

Cooking pup

In traditional Venda garb in front of our roundveld

Chicken and kids

Manure spreading

Food! Butternut squash pup, mopane worms, peanuts, and slimey veggies

After Hamakuya, we headed back into Kruger to Shingwedzi camp. We conducted two projects there, one of which consisted of flipping over rocks in search of spotted geckos. That fun lasted for a few days before we packed up our stuff and drove to Joburg for a day. We visited the Origin Center at Wits University and the Apartheid Museum, which were both pretty neat. 

The next morning we boarded a lime green plane to CAPE TOWN!! Which is where we are now. And it is stellar. But a little bit windy and cold. In any case, shenanigans are surely to ensue so get ready for some fun pictures.

Scorpion 

Sunset in Hamakuya

The group in the biggest Baobab in Africa