Post Mauritius Workshop - presentation

Today at 11am, we made a presentation to the Vice Chancellor , Professor Rajesh Chandra, Michael Gregory from the Planning and Development office and Helen Lentell, Director of CFDL on the SideCAP project and its current progress. We felt a sense of relief at the end of the presentation that we have been able to share our experiences with the VC and also highlight the significant benefits our university will derive from such a project.

Post Mauritius Workshop - report compilation

We are now back at our work desks and we met today from 11am-2.15pm to discuss and compile our report to the CDFL advisory group and ultimately for USP SMG. Our report is now compiled with some final adjustments before we have it circulated to the advisory group

Blog updates delay

You are probably all wondering why there hasn't been much news from us. Its been quite difficult getting internet access here. When we do get internet access, its for a very short time only or access is slow, so we are trying our best to update as much as possible.

Cameleon

Outside our hotel room, we spotted this reptile which we discovered later to be a Madagascar Cameleon.

Sister Jocel

During our wait to go through immigration, we met Sister Jocel from Madagascar who was on her way home after a 5 year mission in PNG. As you probably notice from her outfit, she is from the "Missionaries of Charity" founded by Mother Theresa.

Bonjour Mauritius!!

Finally landed in Mauritius about 8.45pm, Sat 29th Nov (Sunday 30th Fiji time). It was raining and going through immigration was such a long wait. Got out of immigration, collected our baggage and we were out to arrivals an hour later. Our driver Ravin was waiting for us and we zoomed off to Klondike Hotel, an hour away from the airport. Check out Louise waiting outside for our transport in the drizzling rain!

On board Air Mauritius

We had an unusual experience on Air Mauritius. A passenger sitting beside us coming all the way from Bangladesh, was not feeling too well - had a bout of air sickness and we had to put on our nursing hats. Flight was about 6hours in duration and we were just counting the seconds to touch down in Mauritius.

Sights of KLIA

We thought we'd show you some sights of KLIA - voted the best airport in the world 3 years in a row...

Taking the KLIA shuttle

Well, we felt that we'd like you to experience some of what we have experienced. So here is a little video clip of our shuttle ride experience at the KL International Airport. almost comes close to the real thing.

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Journey continues..Sydney-Malaysia

Whew!! What a relief that we found each other on board Malaysia Airlines bound for KL (can u guess what that stands for? quiz buddies!!). Experience on Malaysia Airlines or what they prefer to be referred to MH (nothing to do with MHCC) - its Malaysian Hospitality and its the tag that carries the pinnacle of their tourism promotion. We were constantly fed on the flight and had a great entertainment programme. Experienced indigestion as a result. Getting off KL and into immigration was smooth sailing - no delays at all. We were just so impressed with KL International Airport, the organisation of key processes of the airport was just super perfect which explains why they have been voted 3 years in a row as the "best airport in the world". Finally got a pic here - check out Louise sitting in the shuttle within KL Airport taking us to the immigration area.

Mauritius - The journey begins.... (Nausori-Nadi-Sydney)

The next activity in the SideCAP project is in Mauritius and our journey began on Friday 28th November (Fiji time) at 6am in Nausori Airport. Delayanism (refer to an earlier article) was the order of the day. Flight on Pacific Sun was due to depart at 6am but was delayed by 30minutes or so. Arrived in Nadi to a long line of passengers checking in to the Sydney flight that we were booked into. Then another long queue to go through immigration. We only went to our gate just in the nick of time to board our Air Pac flight to Sydney. It was a 4hour flight and the flight crew was great in comparison to our earlier experiences with the UK meeting. Arrived in Sydney Airport, Louise and I lost each other for a good 2 hours and fortunately found each other on board our booked flight to Malaysia. Whew!!! Almost had a heart attack there!!! Sorry! no pics to go with this article. it was a really rushed connecting flight experience!!!