3 Months in South Africa - My Summary
Glen Allsopp / 
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December 25th, 2007 / 
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After having wrote the hardest blog post of my life, and being very open and sometimes a little uncomfortable, I thought I would lighten things up and get a bit personal in a good way, showing off some of my time in south africa.
I arrived at Cape Town international on September 24th, greeted by the two SEO guru’s I had spoke to frequently on messenger and via email, Lyle and Carl. Getting to the office it was a pretty pleasant surprise, quite nervous about meeting all my new colleagues, was a nice touch that there’s a pool table in the office (and some google beanbags).
We will actually be in a new office by the time I get back to South Africa, something even swankier that I promise to add some pictures of. It certainly wasn’t all work though, I discovered that South Africa is a beautiful country.
I found some time to have a drink (occasionally) as well, well…quite a lot actually
I had quite a few apartments in south africa (long story), here’s a quick variety of pics from them:
Finished off with a few things I’ve learned:
- South Africa is dangerous but not as bad as what most people make out. Yeah I would never walk the streets in the dark but I’m not sure I would do that in many places
- Social Media is definitely up and coming, bluesouth and rival companies in SA are starting to offer related services and even things like online reputation management
- The Internet is pretty slow, and sadly it’s also very expensive for a limited bandwidth line. I pay less in england for “unlimited” fast internet then I would for an average speed, 2gb capped connection in south africa.
- People are awesome, I’ve met some fantastic people and the majority of ’strangers’ are surprisingly easy to talk too. Something you don’t really experience in England, well not as much anyway.
MERRY XMAS EVERYONE
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Wow, it seems like you are having a great time so far.
I would really like to travel to South Africa, from what I have seen and heard it’s a beautiful place. And I would really like to be somewhere with a little less rain than Norway
Merry Christmas!
I actually have a lot of family out in South Africa, one of these days I will have to pay a return visit to many of them, though it might not be in the next 12 months.
Nice to get an update on how things are going Glenn (thanks for stopping by SEO ROI btw). I’ll look forward to seeing how the in-house life goes for you. I’ve resisted going inhouse so far to develop my own business, but perhaps your path - letting you learn and improve [an already great] skillset on someone else’s dime - will turn out to have been the right one.
BTW: Here’s a person for you to network :http://www.seminhouse.com/
Knowledgeable, good job, and her links are pretty well appreciated by yahoo at least.
WE MISS YOU GLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY WIGGA!!!!!!!!!
Hey Glen,
Hope you are enjoying SA. It is an amazing country.
I am actually planning on being there through most of April so email me and we can go grab a drink… Also would be interested to hear about conferences in SA if there are any at the time…
Neyne
i have a 4 month visa to south africa,but i dont have much friends over there,i dont know if its possible 2 get a part time for the duration of 2 months,and get a cheat summer courses,on any professional course,i need things that would keep me very busy,if u can advice me on dis,thanks