Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Southern Africa on Oct 30th, 2010
The Okavango-delta in Botswana is famous all round the world as one of the pristine areas with an overflow of birds, mamals, trees and flowers – also it is one of the rare areas, where a strong river simply silt up with an enourmous delta in the middle of the Kalahari desert. As I am [...]
Posted in Botswana, Southern Africa on Mar 7th, 2010
After a very long flight taking me from Berlin to Munich – over the white Alpes, through whole African continent to Johannesburg in South Africa and I finally arrived on Tuesday after almost a day of travelling to beautiful Gaborone in Botswana. It was great flying in over a totally green Kalahari-desert, as it was [...]
Before I join my new job on 1st of March in Botswana I am currently on preparation-courses in Eschborn (near Frankfurt/Main) with around 30 other GTZ co-workers, who will join projects all over the world. For the first time in my professional job I receive professional preparation with management-skills, financial-explainations and of course strategic elements [...]
After three months of field-research in Southern Africa with the GTZ in Botswana and trips to South Africa, Mozambique and Tansania and afterwards one month writing my master-thesis in Singapore I finally handed in this “masterpiece” yesterday to my university in Berlin. The thesis elaborates before the background of transboundary water-management in the SADC region [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 21st, 2008
After three magnificient months of work, crazy trips, amazing friends and enjoying the summer of Africa I have to went back tomorrow to cold and icy Germany for celebrating chrismas… and I still cannot imaging how it will be: thirty degress less and with rain in greyish Munich and Berlin. I really enjoyed my time [...]
Posted in Botswana on Oct 5th, 2008
After I heard our neighbours yesterday evening on the roof I saw them today in the purple trees infront of our house: funny, little monkeys with an amazing sound volumne and the coolness to try walking into our doors, as if they lived always there and just wanted to look, what is new in the [...]