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(Alex) Today we had an adrenaline filled day. White water rafting on the Zambezi River with class 3, 4 and 5 rapids in the morning, then cliff jumping and zip lining in the afternoon! The rafting was great; high, tough rapids followed by nice, calm, warm, flat surfaces of water for swimming – without many […]

(Emma) Today was the first day of school for all of the schools in Dover. Right now as I type this the middle school bus would be at my house, picking me up for my first day at the middle school. But I am not there; I am in Zimbabwe instead. Even though I am […]

(Dana) Two elephants trying to shake palm nuts out of the tree next to the boys’ tent at our last camp. Hippos feeding, snorting and laughing right outside the girls’ cabin last night. Lioness prints on the sandy path between our tent and breakfast this morning. Our guide doing a 360-degree sweep of each area […]

(Greg) In a single morning in Botswana I was reminded of how different human lives can be, first by five San Bushmen and second by an old man in a little village called Gweta. The Bushmen wandered Southern Africa long before all the tribes came down from the North. They are the nomadic hunters and […]

(Dana) For a type-A, overscheduled, overachieving mom like me, Africa has been the perfect antidote. Wide open spaces like Namibia and the Makgadkgadi salt pan with no other humans or vehicles for 100km or more. Hours-long drives too bumpy for reading with nothing to do but talk with your family, sing or just look out […]

(Reis) My stomach lurches as if being tugged, as the rancid smell of Fried Mopane Worms reaches my nose. You may think “Why does he have a Mopane Worm?” Well if you really want to know, I was about to eat one. We pulled up to the cattle post and the stench of cow and […]

(Alex) There is 2 % of fresh water on the planet. Out of that, 69% is ice. 30% is ground water and 1% of that is available to us in rivers, lakes, ponds and marshes. Only 8% of the 1% of the available fresh water is used for all different kinds of domestic use. Mostly […]

(Andrew) Adrenaline pumped through my veins hearing the baboons’ alarm calls followed by zebras’. Many predators were the suspects of the crime; lions, a leopard and the rare chance of wild dogs. A lion was guilty of the noise. A single, solitary, hungry lioness was sulking around failing to catch prey. She had a big, […]

South Africa is a land struggling with hangovers. Apartheid and racism ripped the country apart just a few decades ago, now, as Mandela’s infectious optimism may be less present, South Africans are left to keep the flames of reconciliation and progress alive. Likewise, the World Cup was a source of pride and unification, but now […]