things i leanrt in southern africa

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Before christmas I spent about 6 weeks in southern africa with my dad. We visited South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Here follows a list of things I learnt while there.

• White people in the past were arseholes. To each other let alone the locals.
  
• White people are still arseholes.
  
• rolling blackouts are called load shedding
  
• there are a lot of elephants in botswana
  
• you can get bored of seeing elephants
  
• elepahant meat is supposedly quite tasty
  
• south africa has a craft beer scene
  
• what happens when a shark is spotted at Fish Hoek beach
  
• the big hole in kimberley is big
  
• Zimbabwe now uses other peoples currencies