Mutiny already and we have not even started! We’ve received replies containing the s/h/v-words in open defiance of the ban. Smartphones will doubtless have to be confiscated. Do you know why they are called smartphones by the way? Well before the NSA (hello, by the way – we hope you are also enjoying reading this), there was a secret agency based somewhere in Washington with a secret agent called Smart who had a portable phone way before anyone else had….
And while you ponder this, we leave you with some girl power pictures so that you all know who to hand your phones into…
Update from our working holiday volunteering with leopards, elephants and cheetahs in Namibia, Africa
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Already, it seems, you yourselves have violated one of your most emphasized, and much repeated, rules of this experience. That is, the use of the words ‘holiday’ -15 times, and ‘vacation’ 4 times. I believe that, at the beginning of most, if not all, of your instructive communications, you have repeatedly stated that this Namibian experience is not a vacation, a safari, nor a holiday. There will be no valets or concierges or room service.
I feel that in order to reassert your authority over this ban, you all need to adhere to your own tenets. Otherwise, secret agents similar to the afore mentioned Smart, or other more current or recently terminated NSA employees, might feel it necessary to contact WikiLeaks and expose your ban on outside communications.
Hope you have dealt with this issue by next week.
Touché! We stand corrected, but would like to blame the secret agent snoopers around the world, who we hope will be fooled by this smokescreen of banned word tags, into thinking this is all just a cushy …. when in reality it’s a pseudo-vegetarian hippie boot camp where cuddling rhinos and riding bad-ass motorbikes is mandatory.
OOO!…..a veggie boot camp, with cuddly rhinos and bad-ass girls on motorbikes!! Can wait! No wonder this was my husband’s idea.
All I had requested was a trip ballooning across Africa. What was I thinking??
LOL!