This post is a little overdue since I got back from Botswana a couple weeks ago… sorry.
Long flights
Well, to start things off the plane I flew to Botswana (yeah, it was a small one) had a little cabin pressure problem and we were forced to land somewhere other than my destination I’m not sure if there’s such thing as a “little” cabin pressure problem but that’s what they said. It least I think that’s what they said? I had my head phones on during most of the annoucement so I didn’t quite hear eveary thing… oops. To make things a bit more complicated I never turned on the international calling option for my cell phone so when we landed I couldn’t call anybody to let them know what the heck was going on. I finally tracked down someone at the airport that let me use the airport phone to call a friend’s South Africa phone so she could call the people that were picking up from the airport that I wasn’t at yet.
At first we were told that the plane should be fixed in an hour… then two… which ultimately led to 3 hours of sitting in an unconditioned airport before they got us back on the plane for another hour of flying. So my original 1 hour and 30 minute flight turned into about a 6 hour endeavor. On the up side, when we boarding the plane for the second time the flight attendants were handed everyone Nando’s wraps and fries (kind of like if Delta gave you a Panera meal if your flight was delayed.). So not my best flight, but I luckily never really got frustrated so it didn’t seem all that bad.
Late Nights
Love Botswana website redesign - www.lovebotswana.org
During the first couple days at Love Botswana I was making some minor website updates as well as training one of their staff members so they could make future updates. It wasn’t too long into the updates that I offered to overhaul the entire site. Apart from give the website a graphical facelift we spent a lot of time on reorganizing the content to make it easier for people to find what they wanted when they visited the website. A project of this size usually would take me about a month to complete, but seeing that I was only going to be in Botswana for 10 days I knew I had my work cut out for me. So yes, cramming 30 days of worth of work into 10 days did call for some very late nights. I’m pretty sure the last 5 days I was there I never went to bed before 3 AM, but in the end it was well worth it. It’s important to mention that it wasn’t just me that made this update happen. I had a lot of help from people writing new copy to bo on the website.
This GIANT Aardvark was really in the middle of nowhere.
