We arrived in Botswana after 24 hours of traveling! By the time we got in it was already dark but by the looks of it, it seems similar to America, we will see tomorrow. We are living at the University of Botswana in a family style dorm with 6 bedrooms and a common living room. The next day we woke up and went on an a two hour African Safari. We went to the same place the our past presidents have been on and we ran into someone in the secret security (graduate of UCF) who was planning a trip for Michelle Obama who will be traveling to Botswana in the next 10 days. During the safari we saw wildebeests, giraffes, pumas, impalas and more… it was awesome!
I noticed that I don’t find a difference between America and here. I see certain parts of the culture that are similar to Sierra Leone, like statues, time, some clothing, some common phrases. But almost everything else is Americanized. How can the same continent be so different. Botswana is still considered a developing country but things seem to be going very well. After the Safari we went to the mall (which looked better then most of the malls near us), we walk into stores with air conditioning, there are cars high class cars everywhere, and I could shop for any and everything I could ever need in America but more cheap.
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