I'm still alive even though I haven't posted anything lately. Since I can't provide any pictures at the moment (hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later), let me just briefly sum up the past three weeks events:
-Inspired by the African haistyles, I had my hair braided by my next door neighbour. And of course, when doing it the A
frican way, you add a lot of synthetic hair to make it longer and thicker.
-We got our first school holiday on March 29. Inga and I flew to Nairobi, and the next day I continued (together with a friend who came to visit me for Easter) by train to Mombasa, and from there by matatu (those private minivans, infamous for overloading and having frequent accidents) to Watamu, which is a tiny town along the coast of Kenya.
-Spent all of Easter more in the Indian Ocean than out of it, it was great! Went scuba diving every day, and on impulse I signed up for a PADI rescue diver course as well. So amongst admiring the beautiful coral reefs, the millions of fish, big and small (even a shark, hiding in a small cave), octopuses and shrimps, I practised how to calm a panicked diver down, rescue people at the surface, giving first aid and control my own stress level. What a great week!
-After Watamu I was in Mombasa for two nights and a day, doing tourist things. Got invited to stay with a really nice family who had a beautiful home.
-Went by bus (not without complications, of course, but I made it in the end) to Dar es Salaam last Thursday, and spent the weekend with two Norwegian friends.
-Yesterday I flew to Cape Town where I'll stay for the next ten days. Haven't seen much of the city yet, so I'll desribe it better later.
And that's my holiday so far. Absolutely no reason to complain about it, so I won't.
-Inspired by the African haistyles, I had my hair braided by my next door neighbour. And of course, when doing it the A
frican way, you add a lot of synthetic hair to make it longer and thicker.-We got our first school holiday on March 29. Inga and I flew to Nairobi, and the next day I continued (together with a friend who came to visit me for Easter) by train to Mombasa, and from there by matatu (those private minivans, infamous for overloading and having frequent accidents) to Watamu, which is a tiny town along the coast of Kenya.
-Spent all of Easter more in the Indian Ocean than out of it, it was great! Went scuba diving every day, and on impulse I signed up for a PADI rescue diver course as well. So amongst admiring the beautiful coral reefs, the millions of fish, big and small (even a shark, hiding in a small cave), octopuses and shrimps, I practised how to calm a panicked diver down, rescue people at the surface, giving first aid and control my own stress level. What a great week!
-After Watamu I was in Mombasa for two nights and a day, doing tourist things. Got invited to stay with a really nice family who had a beautiful home.
-Went by bus (not without complications, of course, but I made it in the end) to Dar es Salaam last Thursday, and spent the weekend with two Norwegian friends.
-Yesterday I flew to Cape Town where I'll stay for the next ten days. Haven't seen much of the city yet, so I'll desribe it better later.
And that's my holiday so far. Absolutely no reason to complain about it, so I won't.
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