Last moments before departure.
Thanks to all those who made it worthwhile!
28 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 28 février 2019, 14:49
Last moments before departure.
Thanks to all those who made it worthwhile!
26 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 26 février 2019, 18:11
This morning we went to the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. This monument honors the pioneers and we can find many elements of African, Egyptian,and Dutch architecture in this building.
Inside this monument we saw sculptures around the walls. This building is surrounded by wagons which are inspired by pioneers .
Then, after lunch, we did groceries because we will cook our own meal tonight.
We continued our drive into the cheetah center. There were birds, cheetahs, hyenas, wild dogs and vultures.
It is a reserve that keeps and preserve endangered animals, or those who have been poisoned or injured . The staff fed them.
25 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 25 février 2019, 14:49
On Monday 25th, we went to Sci-bono discovery museum. In the entrance, there was a pilot jet and a climbing wall .
The guide led us upstairs and he explained about new energies and sustainable sources and we rode a bike to turn on a light.
We went into a laboratory and a scientist made some experience like changing the color of a liquid, or blow into a ballon with a liquid mixture.
We rebuild a jigsaw puzzle of the African lands, also did a brain teaser and a test for color blindness.
During the afternoon, we stayed at the hostels, chilling around the pool.
Théo and Corentin
24 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 24 février 2019, 17:38
In the morning, we visited the Maropeng Museum.
It looks like a cave to represent the place where people of ancient tribes were probably sacrificed .
We went through a tunnel that represented the four elements of nature.
For the afternoon, we went to the Freedom Park .
It is a memorial of the people who died for freedom . There were all kinds of people, even Fidel Castro.
In Pretoria, we visited the Palace of Justice where Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment. We took a photograph of the statue of Madiba in front of the Presidential Palace .
Ronan and Adrien
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 24 février 2019, 16:17
This morning, we woke up at 6 am after a strong thunderstorm night.
After 3 hours of bus we arrived at Pilannesburg Safari. It is a natural reserve of 453 kms square located in an old volcano.
When the park first opened, they introduced 6000 animals, but today they let them live and reproduce naturally .
We saw 2 of the Big Fives: elephants and rhinoceros. We also saw giraffes, snakes, hippos, chacals, impalas, gnus, zebras, kudus, tortoises.
The guide, Nico, was very experimented and he pointed a snake attacking a bird nest.
After eating, at 1pm, we went to Sun City: it's the Las Vegas of South Africa.
There were palaces, golf, aquatic park, waves swimming pool, casino, ...
We enjoyed the swimming pool and the refreshing games . We enjoyed sensational slides!
Matteo and Erwan
23 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 23 février 2019, 20:26
Today we visited the ANC museum. This museum was a farm secretly used by the ANC leaders. The farm has been bought by communist party and a white family was used as a cover to hide the secret meetings to organise terrorist attacks against the apartheid. Somebody informed the police (JNPD) about what was really happening in the farm. Then the police made an operation to put the presumed terrorists in jail. When the police entered the farm, they caught much more people than they thought, and sentenced them to jail for a lifetime. They also found some evidence to sentenced Mandela to a lifetime in prison as well. Three of the ANC members managed to escape though. In the afternoon, we visited a former gold mine: they showed us how gold is extracted to form golden bars. We then ate in the park of Gold Reef City and enjoyed the rides of all kinds.
Clément and Louis
21 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 21 février 2019, 17:47
This morning, we went to the Apartheid Museum.
There was non-whites and whites entry on our tickets. There three benches at the beginning on which we couldn't sit because they were part of the non-white history.
On top of the Museum we saw the seven pillars of the new Constitution. During the visit, we took colored sticks to represent the quote from Mandela that moved us the most.
After lunch, we went to a shopping mall and bought food for tonight: we are in charge of the meal!
In the afternoon, we visited the FNB Stadium. We walked among the 90000 seats, especially the President's one.
Raphaël and Sylvain
20 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 20 février 2019, 15:17
This morning we went to Constitution Hill, the site of a British prison, later used for common criminals, people who refused to have their passbook and political prisoners. Mandela and Gandhi were imprisoned there.
In the afternoon, at the Origins Centre, we were told the oldest remains of our ancestors were found in South Africa.
We finished by going up the Top of Africa, the tallest tower in Africa, where we had a beautiful view of Johannesburg.
Jérémy and Victor.
19 février 2019
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 19 février 2019, 16:44
At 10am we left the hostel for a visit of Soweto (SOuth WEst TOwnship). On the way we stopped for some petrol (14R/L). Unlike in France, the employee filled the tank. Afterwards the guide showed us the FNB Stadium that hosted the first match of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Its location is symbolic because soccer, contrary to cricket and rugby, is for Black people.
Soweto has a rich area, a middle-class one and a poor one. We walked in the slum where a woman invited us in her house. The roof was made of tin. There was no electricity and the people got their water from a common tap. Soweto is the biggest township in the whole Africa and 80% of its population are unemployed.
Next we visited Nelson Mandela's house where he lived before he was imprisoned. It was a typical three-room house with toilet in the back. In his street lived a second Nobel Peace Prize: Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Then we visited the Pieterson Memorial which commemorates the death of students during the 1976 Soweto uprising. They had refused to be taught in Afrikaans, Afrikaaners' language.
Tiphène and Liliana
Par Rey Gwenaelle (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, St Germain en Laye, 78) le 19 février 2019, 16:05
Our flight was booked on the 17th at 2:55.
And of course, like any other plane, our had technical difficulty and was cancelled.
We stayed an entire day at the airport, waiting to be booked onto another flight at 9pm.
We took off for Ethiopia, with a six-hour-long flight and then another flight to Johannesburg. Even after all this waiting, we managed to get here safe and sound.
We got ourselves settled in small dorms and waited until our first dinner in South Africa.
Loane and Rita
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