Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Can Chickens Get Ringworm Ringworm ?(helppp)?

Langenlois

the first MTB race I had the same league Austria in the first round, a rather serious fall and had to unfortunately. A great pity, because the legs were not bad and certainly a reasonable result would have been possible.

Ride on,
Vadim

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Teaching The Story Of Moses To Preschoolers

couch surfers in Cape Town Manzamnyama

Sorry for the blog entries that follow are currently scarce. The Internet Connection is a real problem because we have zero reception in the house and always have to get out with his laptop in the garden if we are to the Internet. What is quite possible that we can internettlen only in good weather. And lately it has been raining quite often! The course is looking forward to our garden. :-)

Last week, the first three couch surfers were here we spent our first night in Lubanzi and then I took two to Manzamnyama. We wanted to stay in the tree house but it was unfortunately in a rather dilapidated state - after a few months of the non-users - and we have billeted at Babalwas mother, who lives closest to the hill. Aidan was in Lubanzi to continue working on the house - we expect the first guests on 2 April and there are viiiiel do. I spent two days in Manzamnyama with Iona and Luis, both students from Cape Town. The construction site on the hill looked sadly neglected as well as from the tree house, and we have two days only cleaned up, weeded and cut grass, prepare to some extent the place again. The problem now are the tools: We have all curbed after Lubanzi, we must now every time we want to work in Manzamnyama the project, lugging all the tools. And we can no longer go up the hill, as the Land Rover and got out of the VW Beetle is parked in the village. This means much drag ... After three days in Manzamnyama I once again realized how much time does the mere survival. Already only get food and cook and eat half a day.

wait for the project must stop the moment a bit. Over Easter we will be here in Lubanzi guests and it is now important here to put everything on the legs and secure a source of income. When Easter is over, we will again spend more time in Manzamnyama, preparing the tree house again (so that we can accommodate volunteers there) and finish the first house.

Lubanzi here in the first hut is practically ready. Last week, we have the Painted walls: the designs I have created and copied with pencil on the wall, and Aidan has helped me imagine all pretty. Voila! Wall decoration a la Africa.


Aidan on wall painting


Rachel at the drawings on the wall


The finished murals

Copy Today we have the source next to the house fenced. It has two sources here, one almost on the same level as our house, and a slightly higher, coming over the hill. The lower source we have made and Kuhsicher new bottles down to secure our water supply. From this source, then the water is pumped into the two large Wassertänke and dine these Tänke the house, ie shower, toilet, water tap in the bathroom etc.

I wanted to upload a few extra photos but the internet connection is cruel slow and so it is only enough for one ...


The crabs live on the beach in Lubanzi, not the big beach next to us, but the small bay about 5 minutes walk in the other direction.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Cartier Paris Quartz 20-

Duke of Trash




first training races this season, I went on Saturday, 20 March, the Duke of Trash. A good opportunity to get used to after a long winter to return to racing stress. I finished the race in 8th place of over 100 starters.
Now comes a hard training week and on Sunday is at the C1 race in Langenlois.

Ride on,
Vadim

Monday, March 15, 2010

Light Pink Mucus 12dpiui



And how time flies! We have actually managed only a week to stay away. The trip to Cape Town was laaaaang that bazbus party on Saturday evening (the reason for our trip) it pretty well. We have previously briefly printed a stack of photos, the one from the project to another of our new house / Backpackers, and I have the whole evening photos (of course on it with your logo and contact details, as it were, business cards) distributed. From Manzamnyama we took Sesanda Cape Town, he was out in Johannesburg hardly come further than Mthatha. To our astonishment, he kept pretty well, it must have been quite a shock to be simply thrown into the deep end and totally adapt our habits and our way of life to need. I have been very difficult, to explain to him everything always to tell him where we go, who we meet, and why, and how long it takes, and also that he always paid attention to what you're gonna chucks. Aidan had him for three weeks work for free for his journey "to pay", and so Sesanda moved for a week with Aidan and me around the houses, ate ate when we slept when we slept, and enjoyed a great time at the bazbus party.

Perhaps a quick explanation for the reason of this trip: bazbus is the most popular bus company for backpackers in South Africa. The bus provides door to door service from a youth hostel to the next, and it can be done in Cape Town aboard the hostel xy and z in Jeffreys Bay off the hostel, a few days stay aboard, and then proceed to the next destination. As the bus leaves from hostel to hostel, the owner of the company knows, of course, all youth-owners - after all, the vast majority of bus tickets sold directly in the hostels. At some point it has become so naturalized that bazbus, the bus company, every year is throwing a birthday party and invites all Youth Hostels owners. You get a bus ticket sponsored for the return trip and will maintain a splendid evening, with games, music, free drinks, great barbecue and all the trimmings. For Hostels in turn, is the owner to operate it the opportunity to networking, with the other refreshing vitamin B inns owners and just generally see and be seen. The backpacker industry in South Africa is one big family, you know, and we stayed for free at other motels. Also sends one to each other guests, make recommendations ... and so it is important to make a good case.

So, that is the background. We drove to Cape Town, free, all free of charge, to promote our project and our new Backpackers. For the project, we hope volunteers, and of course for Backpackers guests. The structure is now be that we are three days a week on house work, all a bit pimp, welcomed its first guest, and renovate the main house step by step, and work three days a week in Manzamnyama the project. The Backpackers is important to us, as we at last brought a source of income - we've even lived on savings, or anywhere else scraped together a few pennies, and our maintenance costs, particularly gasoline for your car and for the generator, usually paid for by donations. After all, we deserve nothing even with the project ... and something we must live. So if we bring the Packers back to work, we are able to fund a living and also support the project. At the moment, anyway both are so closely linked - the house and the project - that it is virtually impossible to separate the finances strict.

With the money you have donated in January / February to the project presentations or on other occasions, Aidan mainly wire mesh and tools invested. He bought a battery drill that our lives immensely relieved - in the house as the project construction. A new, smaller water pump, it has also acquired, which can now be operated from a small generator and stays with the project, plus for a larger generator, backpackers. Much has been invested in gasoline for the Land Rover, who tirelessly between the forest and the village was driven back and forth, transporting vast amounts of strains (up to the old box somewhere on a holey road to their last breath did and the spirit of giving up.'s with wars then the Land Rover. Now we have only the Beetle, thank God, has Aidan so much wood dragged before the Land Rover stopped permanently.). Ah yes, and then of course the tin for the roof and anti-rust paint to paint it. So now is all the material around to finish the first house on the hill - and we need only a few hard-working hands to assemble it all.

I was not much back in Manzamnyama since I'm back, Wednesday and Thursday This week we will be there and continue working on the project and organize the couch surfing event for Easter. We expect between 10-40 volunteers over the Easter holidays, which should again give the project a little boost! We are also with the guys in Pretoria in contact, especially Lawrence, which will now help in the distance, in the village to bring everything to clean across the stage to bridge language barriers and in general the youth of the village again to encourage more to Lend. As soon as I have Internet connection to follow photos of the state of affairs in Manzamnyama.

Ah yes, Internet: in our new house we have not NULL mobile phone reception, so we must always with the laptop on your lap in the farthest corner of the garden-out, where we have any reasonably acceptable reception, but the internet connection is terribly slow. So please forgive me if news will follow only scanty, or delayed. :-)

Everything I am more than happy to be back in South Africa, it is beautiful all day again to go barefoot, build gardens every day to be dirty or clean, or from, in particular, is the sound of the waves in the ears and the wind in your hair. This year will be a real adventure, very exciting with all our projects, and I can hardly wait for the next day. :-)

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Senior Week Specials In Ocean City Nj

return back to South Africa

Wow. What a return South Africa! It has been a lot done here in my absence ...

So, I was not really in Manzamnyama, very briefly, and Aidan has built a huge fence around the whole area where we build the Lodge! This is really great, a fence is just the nuts and bolts here, otherwise you can forget the whole gärntern same. The roof of the first room is almost finished. Aidan wanted to finish everything before I come back, but then what is between ...

... namely an offer we could refuse impossible. In the neighboring village, Lubanzi, we were able to buy a house, including 2 Rondavels, fully furnished with beds and all that with covered patio and bar and garage. This house is now our temporary home while we rebuild the whole into a backpackers. The rondavels are in good shape, but the house needs to be done before it can be rented at a profit.

Now we have two projects ... and we will invest a lot of time working in the new house, because, if we can live from this Backpackers, we have ensured a better capacity to invest in our project. Moreover, the income or profit is partly invested in the project.

donations will of course continue to be 100% into the project. As soon as I put a gives better overview have, I'll post here a list of things that Aidan has recently acquired, such as tons of wire mesh for the fence, and some tools like a cordless drill, which makes our work uncanny.

A big thank you to all who have come to one of the project presentations and have something put in Kässeli, and thanks also to all others who have a donation to the project. I deposited the money immediately accessible again project has Aidan account and then return mail in South Africa lifted off again and invested in the project. Overall, have come together to 1000.00 francs. A very special thanks go to my parents say that Aidan and I have housed and fed during our stay in Switzerland, who have tirelessly made for my project advertisements and flyers printed and distributed, and have invited people for the presentations. Thank you, without your help and support would all have been impossible. Also a big thank you to the rest of the family, grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins, for your kindness and your support.

Sun - the moment we meet, especially in Cape Town on a short marketing trip to the backpacker at a party owners and flyers of our project and our new Backpackers scatter. Towards the end of next week we are back at the Wild Coast, and I will take pictures of everything that is new, post here on this blog.

Thank you all, friends and donors, and it was wonderful to see you all again, and hopefully soon - in Switzerland or in South Africa!