WORKING WEEKEND:

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16-18 APRIL 2010

WORKING WEEKEND:

FRIDAY:

Today as always we have welcoming. This is when we welcome the guests that are checking in for the weekend. We greet them, take them to reception, tell them more about Sondela itself and then we take them up to the pancake station. Today there was a small change for me; I got the opportunity to work at the pancake station. We had a little problem; there weren’t enough hotel and lodge management students so I volunteered to make the pancakes at the station.

This was a nice experience for me; I had the opportunity to work with the guests in a different surrounding. This made me aware that the guests act different in different spaces and dealing with different people. This is interesting to experience. They change moods after they talked to the students that welcomed them.

SATERDAY:

This morning at 9:00 we had a tractor game drive at the caravan park. We had a little delay in the program, but we sorted it out fast. There was only one family on the game drive. On the game drive we told them about the foxtail grass, the “bees’ kraal” and the animals that we saw in the springbuck flats. Here we noticed a small blue wildebeest that has a sore foot, I notified the Wildlife Centre right away. The game drive was cut short because the one four year old was starting to fall asleep and the other one kept on saying that he wanted to go back. They still complimented us on our drive, so it was successful.

At 11:30 we went on a pony ride with guests, this was only for a half an hour around the foxtail grasslands. I really like to go on the game drives and see how the people react when you tell them interesting things about the animals. Most people only know the basics so when you tell them what you know they act so surprised and it’s a pleasure seeing that.

SUNDAY:

Today after we did our game drives all the students went brush cutting. We had to clear the high grasses and khaki bush so that the animals are more visible when you take guests on a game drive. This took quite a while and it can get tiring. I still enjoyed it for this was my first time I went brush cutting.