Working at the Wildlife centre

Well am sure you all know that i am back at Sondela and am working at the wildlife centre.We are part of the project that is going teach people to be more aware of the Enviroment we live in,We are the fantastic four but with out the super pwers of course. We hope that you will come and see us in action. This is the time to live Green, so are you ready!!!!!!.

Back at Sondela

Well we i am back at Sondela and now am no longer a student but i am an employee.Remember when i said that i was going to achieve something and i did i managed to start my own business and as time goes i will see how wi will work out.

Graduating

Well we are now done with being students and we are now facing the real world and its tough out there we enjoyed our graduation and we all made it. It was not easy it took lots of hard work and dedication.

Day 3 of Limpopo Tour

This furnace was used for mining at Eersteling (which means "first born")mine in the late 1800s and was the first place which gold was dicovered and the one at top on the rihgt is the camelthorn tree which is planted at the Moordrift monument but now its old and no longer has leaves pods or flowers, the middle small picture is us at the Moordrift monument, which was build to honour the women and children who were brutaly murdered in the area,this aso used to be a place where mail coaches stoped to rest and give water to their horses and .From the right at the bottom is the picture of Knotts camp and the amazing view we had, i totaly enjoyed staying there and i hope to go back one day.over all i enjoyed the trip and it was a great learning experience

Day 2 of Limpopo Tour

From the right its me prepering myself for the picture,we were leaving Warriors camp site which had an amazing view and enjoyed staying there and i hope to come back some day. As you can see in the centre what i am taking about when i say an amazing view.In the left is picture taken when we were heading to Makhado(louis Trichardt) and the tunnels depicts gods greatness and is the place that Louis Trichardt who was a voortrekker leader climbed down fro the moutain with his people and cattle for 3 months and i must add that it is said that his wife was the one who came up with the idea and apperantley they tied rope on themselves, their cattle and on the tree's to prevent them from faling to their death that's why they say in most cases behind every successful man there is a beautiful woman and i might add smart too and i include myself on that list and i know what you thinking "very funny".Overall it was agreat experiance i enjoyed myself despitethe hiccups along the way.

Limpopo tour day 1

These were the scenic places we saw. That little shop you see is in haenertsburg and when you look at it you feel stuck in time this little preserves the history the place when you go there the atmosphere is amazing its like you are in afairy tale that one gets to see in movies. I felt like i was in a movie and those strange art effecta can be found at the tzaneen museum where the culture of the Tsonga and Pedi people are potrayed including the dynasty of the Modjadji queens" THE RAIN MAKING QUEENS". The view of the dam and that is us with ms heidi we were playing aprank on her cause she felt tired after a very long journey to Haenertsburg and we stopped she decide to take a nap and we being very naughty took pictures of to show her how she looks when she i s sleeping that was very funny cause she caught us.

I am still a normal girl

Well this is how i look when i am not wearing my working clothes, the reason why i am showing you this picture is that people have a perception that when you are working in the bush, you can't look good and my friends have been making fun of me, they say that the bush has messed me up and i will admit that i have been neglecting myself but i can't help it cause i work too hard. I am a workaholic and those who don't know me think that i am a spoiled snob but iam not, fortunately i dont have i big ego.

Happy days

This was the bonus function that took place at sondela. We had a lot of fun, we did a roleplay on how sondela operates on a daily basis plus we received our certificates for nature guiding and that was a great honour!!!

Flu and a whole lot of flu

Well i would like to say to everyone if you feel that something is wrong with you, make sure that you see the doctor asap because you will never know what it might be and i found out the hard, cause i had a flu and i took it lightly till i could not get up, then i knew something was wrong i was seriously sick, luckly i did something in time and i almost ate a whole back of oranges which helped me get back on my feet.NB I haven't forgoten my promise to you that i am going to do something life changing so keep watching this space.

Lifes' Lessons

U never realised how far off i have been, OK! i Will spare you the long speech and get to the point. I have lost focus on what i want and i feel dat the passion that i have for life has taken a bit of a knock and that i needed someone to remind of what drives me as a person and i can assure that there is a lot of things that drive me. i remember when i was an early teen i used to draw, paint, design. I could do so much and now i feel like a have aged sooner than i thought and i am only 23. Mr Pearce reminded me of something which i have forgotten and that is i am young and have so much to offer and i should work very had and that is what i am planning to do i have given myself a challenge which i have to complete on the 25 September 2009. I will let you in on the details once i have completed my plan, so watch this space. Pls go out there and live your dream ta!!!.

Womens' Month

It's good to be a woman!!! and you probably ask yourself why? and the reason is because we are celebrated for what we can do. A woman can do so many things, we are care givers,supporters, providers, household managers, a woman can be whom ever you want her to be. So i would like to say happy womens' month just take it easy and know that you are great!!!! and to my mom you are the best, i can't imagine life without you, i am the young woman that i am because of you,you have taught me so much and every day of my life i use the knowledge that you have given me thanks alot love you!!!!!.

The museums at Polokwane

These are the Iconic giraffe family sculptors which are an amazing peace of art but unfortunately they were damaged, if you want to see these sculptors you can find these at the civic square at Polokwane

On a light note

A joke for the week!!!!!

A boy came to Sondela with his parents for the holidays, so he asked his mother for money to buy sweets and she gave him the money he came back and asked for money to buy an ice cream then she gave him, later he came back and asked for more money to go for a game drive and the mother said do you think that money grows on trees' and the boy responded by saying then why do banks have branches!!!

So parents when you ask your kids want to go for a game drive let them know that they won't find money on tree branches

SALAMIS

I have discovered that i have blood of queens and kings running through my veins and i feel they led me to this place to finally discover who i am. It all astarted with the Bela-Bela tour and now i feel that i can finally honour my ancestors.I never realised that a represented many nations becaause i have blood of many nations running through my veins, which is a blessing because i get to see a part of myself in the faces i see when i do tours.

All my life i struggled with my i dentity , i remember when i had to fill in forms of which ethnic group i belonged to, that was difficult and even when the teachers at class asked me what my name meant i always had to guess what my name meant and i used to guess that it meant peace and i was right. This dicovery was lead by a grave of a child named Salomina at the old Bela-Bela cemetary. When i saw the name Salomina, i asked myself many questions that no one could answer. I thought to myself maybe my name was mispelled and it was because it has an h at the end, which its not sopposed to. That made me curious and i started searching for answers, because one thing about being a guide you have to know where you come from before you tell people about other peoples culture.

i dicovered a whole new universe when it came to my name, i mean there is an island with my name, a municipality and marathon.This dicovery was lead by a grave of a child named Salomina at the old Bela-Bela cemetary

The name Salamis is probably derived from Salam (shalam), Phoenician for peace,^[3] under which it was mentioned in Homer's writings. Some sources, however, say it was named after the nymph Salamis, according to legend the mother of Cychreus, the first king of the island).^[4]

Greek Name: Transliteration: Translation:

SalamiV Salamis Of Salamis (island)

SALAMIS was the Naiad Nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Salamis on the island of the same name (in southern Greece)

She was a daughter of the River Asopos who was abducted to the island by the god Poseidon.

PARENTS

[1.1] ASOPOS (Corinna Frag 654, Apollodorus 3.161, Pausanias 1.35.2) [1.2] ASOPOS & METOPE (Diodorus Siculus 4.72.1-5)

OFFSPRING

[1.1] KYKHREUS (by Poseidon) (Apollodorus 3.161, Pausanias 1.35.2, Diodorus Siculus 4.72.1-5)

ENCYCLOPEDIA SA′LAMIS (Salamis), a daughter of Asopis, and by Poseidon the mother of Cenchreus or Cychreus. (Paus. i. 35. § 2; Apollod. iii. 12. § 7; Diod. iv. 72.) From her the island of Salamis was believed by the ancients to have received its name. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

"Of these nine daughters [of Asopos]... while Korkyra and Salamis and lovely Euboia were stolen by father Poseidon." - Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Frag 654

"Kykhreus the son of Poseidon and Asopos’ daughter Salamis." - Apollodorus, The Library 3.161

"It is said that the first to give this name [Salamis] to the island was Kykhreus, who called it after his mother Salamis, the daughter of Asopos." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 1.35.2

"[In the temple of Zeus at Olympia are paintings] Salamis carrying in her hand the ornament made for the top of a ship’s bow." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 5.11.5

"Asopos made his home in Phlios, where he married Metope, the daughter of Ladon, to whom were born two sons, Pelasgos and Ismenos, and twelve daughters, Korkyra and Salamis, also Aigina, Peirene, and Kleone, then Thebe, Tanagra, Thespeia, and Asopis, also Sinope, and finally Ornia and Khalkis ... Salamis was seized by Poseidon and taken to the island which was named Salamis after her; and she lay with Poseidon and bore Kykhreus, who became king of this island."

THE GREAT BATTLE OF SALAMIS

480 B.C.

480 B.C. The Persians in their conquest to conquer all of Europe had taken part of eastern Greece. After the Battle of Thermopylae where Leonidas and 300 Spartan soldiers died courageously defending their ideals and their country the Persian fleet sailed to the Saronic Gulf and the Greek fleet sailed to Salamis.

The Persians anchored at Faliro Bay where their King Xerxes ordered halve of the fleet to sail to Corinth and the other halve to Attica and Elefsina.

200 Egyptian Trieris sailed to the Megara Bay to block the way of the Greek Fleet and the same time the Persian Army landed in Attica and Psitalia Island, (a small Island near Salamis) Xerxes ordered his servants to place his throne on a hill which looks over Salamis bay so he can watch the battle the hill is called Egaleo.

i dicovered so much that it would take days.basically my name is a greek name, yhey cut it and say salamis so if you call me salamis i won't be offended.When i discoverede this i had great feeling, because this contributed to my fascination with hitory, i wanted to be a historian when i was i child, so i am living part of that dream.I made a dicovery in my own life and i realised that every human being is a living story, so go out there and discover WHO YOU ARE !!!!!!!

More on Polokwane

Cycling

This weekend we had a cycling marathon at Sondela which was quite fun, it was a very interesting experiance because i have never been a part of such an event and i think Sondela did a great job, the guests enjoyed themselves, it would have been nice to see mr meyer in the race but maybe next time and hopefully i get the chance to see the one that is going to take place next year

"TATA MADIBA"

Its a pleasure that you are still with us because you have been a blessing in our lives and you have done so much for our contry, you are a "HERO" and you are definitley a father of the nation and i hope that God keeps you alive for years to come.You and i have one thing in common we are both born in the same month, i was born on the 15th and you were born 0n the 18th, so that makes us both Cancerian.I hope that one day i will be as good as you are, if not atleast to be half the person you are.Have a good birthday ukhule u khokhobe !!!!!!!!

Growing up !!!!!

I have learned lot till now, even though i am still young but i have learned how to have limitations, when to let go but the most important thing i have learned is human nature, every human being is unique and you have to treat a person according their character, but the greatest lesson i have learned is love rules us all and you need to have love and understanding. My mother is still over protective of me even at this stage, i used to find that to be silly but i realised is because she cares and loves me and it felt wonderful when she said happy birthday my angel, you are still my baby girl.

You can have have it all but as long as you dont have the peolple who love you close to you life has less meaning even if you are rich but for me richness is the love and support i get from them even if everyone thinks i suck to the i am the best, even if people make fun of mt height or call me a "NEVER MIND" it does not matter.So i thank God for keeping me on this earth for this long cause many don't get the chance to reach this age.

The place of safety " Polokwane"

We went on a Polokwane tour which was fun .
we saw and experianced various things such as historical art
effects and how people use the past things in the present.
Our first stop was Bakone malapa which is an open air museum
which exhibit historical art effects of the Bakone people
and how they lived and their culture.I felt like i was thrown back in time when i was wearing the animal skins, it was a fun experiance

The death of an Icon

Micheal shaped world history with his voice and talent, his briliance is unmached he influenced our lives in many ways that no one can.He will be remembered for his white socks,gloves and hat mostly his dance moves and scandals but without a shadow of a doubt he is a Legend and i woould like to say rest in peace. I hope you have the peace you never had when you were alive.Salute!!!!!

Being a youth

Lesson that i learned for the past few months, is that in life you face many challanges, especially when it comes to making people believe in you as a person, but it is up to as person to have faith in yourself.We recently celebrated youth day but what does that mean, personally its up to you as long as it makes a difference in your life."So just live your life"

My journey as a guide

It was a fine day we were all smiles and laughs,cause we were all looking foward to the tour.I had the time of my life.I learned alot on this tour not only about the Bel-Bela town but myself as well and i am sure you wondering what,i learned something i will never forget.BUT FIRST THING FIRST.


We are on our way to Bela-Bela Tourism and parks usinng the R516 road the view was amazing as you can see, we were approaching the Silos' We arrived at th Tourism and Parks offices where we were welcomed with a smile.This is the place where you receive information regarding accommodation, places of interest and things to do and general information about Bela-Bela and limpopo, you will receive brochures , maps etc , so if you ever come to Bela-Bela make a quick stop there you won't regret it!!!!

Life as a guide

Hi every one being a guide is not an easy task it takes patiance and understanding because everyday you face challanges that acquires strength but i am always ready for every challanges that comes my way.My motto in life is every good and bad thing that comes your way is there to shape you into a master, you may not be jack of all trades but if you master your life, you are master of everything that counts

Tip of the week!!!!!

Confidence is the key, if you can find that key, just imagine the possibilities, work hard and stay safe.

Joke of the week!!!!

why do you think that Nyala's look like they are wearing socks!!!well its because one day a kaizer chief fan was trying to shoot it for dinner, so the Nyala made a deal with the fan,the Nyala promised the fan that he will wear kaizer chief's socks for life if he doesn't kill him so the fan agreed, so why dont Kudu's wear Orland pirates socks to avoid being eaten

Bela-Bela Tour

This is me the super guide during the bela-bela tour.i can guide you from bela-bela to polokwane

My first experiance at sondela academy

i joined the academy at sondela on 26 september 2008