I just realized I don’t have my passport, I had to hand it in to get my visa. My insurance company requires the doctor to ask me for ID (according to an email I got), yet they don’t cover the costs, oh well, Its too late now to get my passport back so lets just hope it’ll work out…
I drew a map of Dar es Salaam today (for the website), I’ll be staying there from the 28th of january til the 10th of february, its the largest and richest city of Tanzania. looks like a really cool place…
I’ll be leaving in 15 days, I still can’t believe it!
There’s still a lot to do but I managed to get the most important things sorted out, health insurance, travel insurance and my vaccins(appointment for monday morning). I’ve also been finishing up a site at the internship and Ive been drawing a map of Africa for the VirusFreeGeneration website. Right now I’m working on some intro/outro animations for the webisodes.
Yesterday we went through the scedule, all I can say is that it’s gonna be a hectic 70 days, but I’m really looking forward to it. Beer and I will be responsible for a total of 15 videos of 2/3 minutes, thats about 1 webisode per 3/4 days. We’ll also be taking photos and getting the artists to blog for the site. It’s going to be a lot of work…
I’m working on a list of things I should take with me and I’m looking for 2 good books to read, if anyone has a good suggestion, let me know.
Hey All,
For those who don’t know yet, I am going to Africa! Here’s the whole story…
Yesterday (Tuesday the 8th of january) I found out I’ll be going to Africa for 70 days, I got asked if I wanted to go just 2 days before by a classmate (Beer) who was looking for a replacement for his teammate (Peter) who couldn’t go because of a medical problem. I had nothing else planned and since it’s free I really had to say “yes” so I did.
Its for a project called virusfreegeneration, my role for the project will be updating the website and editing short video blogs called “Webisodes” (together with beer), more details on the project later…
I’ll be visiting 4 countries, South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania and Malawi. Getting an internet connection will be a big task in some of these countries so I don’t know how much I’ll be able to update, and if I’ll be able to post pictures or just text. Its probably gonna be a cellphone connection, which is why this blog is so basic (<10kb).
Today I got to meet the team, and I had to sign some papers (for a Visa to get into Tanzania) which made it all very real, and also strange because it still has to hit home in a way. I also made an appointment to get 5 vaccines for Monday…
I hope everybody will enjoy reading this blog and please comment!