Dumela Botswana!

So here I am. I have been in Botswana for a week, staying in a safari lodge about 2 hours away from any city, with no computers, tv, phone, just a 2 way radio. Parts of it are amazing: the wildlife (especially the birds), the friends that I have made, taking trips to the near by village. I have even come to enjoy strange parts about my existence here: checking under the toliet seat for scorpions, getting startled when a lizards runs across my tent, the compulsory drinking of gin & tonics (for preventing malaria, of course), being woken up in the middle of the night by an elephant walking right next to my tent, finally being able to finsh War and Peace... However, the work part is not really what I expected. As in, there is no work for me to do. Which makes it a little tedious and boring and lonely at times. Also the isolation can be a bit tough, and I have only been here a week!

However, I am definitely having an experience of a lifetime. I have not decided what I am going to do, if I am going to stay here for the next 3 months or travel on. I am kind of waiting to see how things pan out, and in the mean time making the most of it. I don't have access to internet (or anything at all really!) except for when I come into town, which is 2 hours away, and I only get to every week or so. I have taken tons of photos but don't have a way of uploading them. Hope all my friends back home are doing well, I miss everybody!