I haven't gotten to the pictures yet, which is a bummer. I did manage to edit one video of a very rare Black Rhino that we'd seen when we were staying at Jock Safari Lodge, within Kruger Park. I had promised them that I would post the video on their Facebook page. These rhines are rarely seen. They are very shy. The video I took was taken a half mile away, and it didn't come out badly. This weekend, I'm going to work on getting the photos up on Photobucket so that family and friends can see them. Then, I have to do a video/slide show for friends here in VT who all want to see the animals....and we took videos and stills of lots and lots of animals.
In Africa, they call one group of animals The Big Five - Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Rhino, and Cape Buffalo. By our second day on safari we'd seen all five! That usually doesn't happen. In our case, it was serendipitous, because after seeing the Big Five, we then started watching carefully for all the other animals. All in all, we took over 1500 still photographs and about 600 videos, so you can see why it is taking me so long.
In addition, my classes started on September 29, and I had to get online each day of our trip in order to keep up. The college had given us an estimate of 30 hours a week that we would have to spend online in order to do these intensive courses. I think they were dreaming. While on vacation, I ended up being online 25 hours. This week, after only 4 days, I've spent almost 40 hours online, and still have two quizzes to take and a paper to write. One instructor made the statement that each course was originally meant to take a semester to teach. Each course we're taking is 5 weeks long, meaning that we're covering 4 semesters of work between now and April 30. Sigh...........
I'm frustrated more because the classes aren't giving me the time to think, let alone do anything extra. I'm usually very good at managing my time, but in this case, I've had to shift my organization skills into hyper-drive.
