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Made in China
I thought I go to Africa but the Chinese and also the Indian people are already here and quite massive. Specially the Chinese own huge storages, where container from China arrives and they sell everything to the Botswana markets while the Indian people almost own the complete service sector. And I experienced this myself, as…
Flooded office during the night
As me and Martin Hofmann, the other diploma-aspirant working for GTZ, normally work from the GTZ office everything was going smoothly there and fine. But our old office from Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, where we stayed some weeks in the beginning, went on an internal seminar and asked us to babysit the office. We thought no problem but…
Sowa and Baltic sea / halloween
After my experiences in Maun with the regional parliament we went on to Sowa, near the boarder to Zimbabwe and consulted the regional parliament of this township. That was amazingly different – not only that the gender-situation was the opposite of Maun and the meeting was dominated by femals but as well the parliament was…
Sunburn in Maun
After ten hours with the mega-fast bus from Gaborone, that was sometimes overspeeding even 140 km/hour I arrived well in Maun, in the Okavango-delta and enjoyed myselfes yesterday on a boat trip through the great waterworld with magnificient birds and rhinos. Unfortunatly a sunburn reminds me today on this adventure. But this doesn’t matter cause…
Upgrade on my accomodation
After sleeping some weeks on the ground in my sleeping-bag cause the whole appartment was accupied I managed to receive an upgrade and have an own room now for me – after these days I really appreciated the luxury! Also our monkey enjoy me more and more… today they drunk my juce before I was…
Rhinos, football-heroes and luxury overnight-stays
Last weekend we managed to go on my first longer trip outside Gaborone and drove about 1.500km the whole weekend and it was amazing. It started with a stay in the Khama Rhino Santuary in the near of Serowe, where we arrive in the late night and were amazed by the beautiness of the santuary…
Trip to countryside and continue working
After some days in Botswana I feel already home because of the amazing friendly people and the great weather with around thirty till fourty degrees. After we had been in an Botswana club on last Friday where we enjoyed dancing with crazy people until early in the morning I used Sunday to grap a car…
Caught between two offices
After visiting yesterday the fancy GTZ office in the United Nation Building and enjoying the “down-town-athmosphere” I am back to the office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation to work on my thesis. The GTZ office is directly supporting the SADC (Southern African Development Cooperation) cooperation and their headquarter, which is some hundred meters around the corner from…
monkeys as neighbours
After I heard our neighbours yesterday evening on the roof I saw them today in the purple trees infront of our house: funny, little monkeys with an amazing sound volumne and the coolness to try walking into our doors, as if they lived always there and just wanted to look, what is new in the…
Well arrived in Gaborone
After some long days in transit I finally arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, where I will stay the next three months until chrismas and work for my final thesis on the transboundary water-management in the SADC region. I flight over crazy Dubai and arrived in Joburg fine, where I had a great stay in the former…
Defeated by Beiruts nightclubs
Today we wanted to have a dancing evening and expirience the magnificient nightlife of Beirut with all the cool and modern nightclubs, beautiful girls and great music. We have heard a lot but after engaging two taxi-drivers and visited six nightclubs we had realised, that we were defeated. Two clubs were closed, one was occupied…
Mega-crazy Beirut
As we arrived in Beirut rainy weather was hidding the town, but finally we saw the great city on the beach and before the mountains and were happy to get here finally. We drove in town with a huge American black Chevy and soon our lifes got more crazy, as we walked through a camp…
Without beard in middle of Turkey
After exploring the magnificient beach of Olympos and the funny mountains of Göreme we are finally approaching the end of our trip in Turkey and are on the way to Syria with the famous night-buses. I decided that short hairs on my head suites well to no beard and after two years I asked a…
List of lost stuff #1.0
After more then two weeks on our trip to Middle East through Easter Europe and Turkey we evaluated today our missing stuff and have to report some tragedies – surpringly Jona is leading this field of competition but I believe, that next weeks I manage to get closer to him, there were already too many…
homework finished… :)
After two days of sitting in different coffee bars and enjoying wifi-internet in Bukarest, Sofia and Istanbul I finally finished my homework for university in 24 pages about the Dafur-conflict and the involvement of African Union and European Union. Great feeling to be free now for next four weeks from work and university and enjoy…