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DAVID REID in Congo
Published Date
08 July 2009
Home Town in SA
Edenvale, JHB
Now Living in
Lubumbashi, DRC
Occupation
Project Manager
Best Thing About the Country?
It is so warm here, exactly like a hot SA summer during SA winter season! Beautiful!
Biggest Cultural Difference?
French. Working in a currency where 800 Franks is the equivalent of one US $. And the traffic is absolute chaos. Everyone drives at roughly 50km/h and first come first serve! No stop signs, no traffic lights, people just drive! Culturally very third world, but everyone is content with what they have, it comes across as a very peaceful, relaxed city.
Top Things to Do or See?
Not sure yet, haven’t been here long enough! Have heard that Virunga National Park is a must if you are keen to see gorillas (and maybe even guerillas! hahaha! not that funny actually)
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I grew up in Edenvale and finished school at Jeppe High School for Boys. Submitting to the travel bug I did a six month stint in Dublin, working in a Spar, then spent the rest of the year in Michigan, USA at a summer camp. Studying at WITS University, doing a BA in English and Psychology, and then at WITS Technicon, studying Architecture took up the next few years of my life, until I started working for an Architectural firm in 2007. At the end of last year I took up a position at a firm as a project manager and after working in JHB for half a year, I am now sweating it out in the DRC, building a 200 room hotel!
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