Monthly Archives: July 2013

Just after completing final examinations of my second year of veterinary school at the end of May, 2013, I set off on a plane headed to Botswana, where I would be staying for 8 weeks and working with a private … Continue reading →

Today was a busy morning and day!  I took a picture of my last sunrise here – sad! I had finished packing up my suitcase last night, and was ready to fly back to Johannesburg, then on to NYC today.  … Continue reading →

Today we visited two feedlots.  At the first feedlot, we performed three postmortem examinations on cows – all had frothy bloat again.  It was at the same feedlot that has been having the frothy bloat issue.  We walked around the … Continue reading →

Janine and I started off our Tuesday morning by heading over to open up the practice up for the day.  Upon arrival at the practice, we opened up the practice for the day so that the two workers there, Lady … Continue reading →

Janine and I began our day with a beautiful sunrise and drive to the practice in Lobatse to meet up with Mark and Anthony.         We started off our day by driving out to a dairy farm.  … Continue reading →

I slept in until 10:30 AM this morning, which was great!  I took a couple of my herbal sleeping pills last night, which apparently knocked me out pretty well!  I woke up very well rested, though.  Janine and I were … Continue reading →

Janine and I slept in this morning, which was awesome and much needed!  I had some sorghum porridge this morning, then started packing up my suitcase and writing up some more blog posts.  I can’t believe I’ll be leaving Botswana … Continue reading →

Today we were going to be heading to Mark and Jane’s farm to perform pregnancy diagnoses on their 100 or so cows just after we opened the clinic in the morning.  Janine and I first drove into the clinic, and … Continue reading →

I took a bath this morning, and unfortunately, one of those huge spiders decided to join me!  Even knowing these spiders were harmless, I was out of that bath in a second and a splash, having not washed my hair … Continue reading →

Janine and I began today by driving back to Zeerust to get the Toyota receipt.  There was an awesome sunrise over the mountains on our drive this morning. We arrived at the border and luckily, the receipt was still there … Continue reading →