Good luck Jake!

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Jake is one of the awesome volunteers I met in Kariega Game Reserve last August. He may actually be the most awesome of Team Awesome and Team Awesomer, the names we gave our two teams for our nightly 30 Seconds and Charades games. He was the only guy! Awesome and brave.

Jake is from Dorset in the UK. He studied animal management at university and has been working as a zookeeper, in pest management and as a lecturer for the past few years. Last August he made a life decision to pursue his dream of becoming a Game Ranger and Field Guide in Africa. Tomorrow he begins his training at Ulovane, the most respected school for field guide training in the Eastern Cape. On the grounds of Amakhala Game Reserve and not far from Kariega, the school is also a source for volunteers who assist game veterinarian Dr. William Fowlds and his Vets Go Wild. Good luck Jake!

Jake has begun a blog about his adventure. If you want to get an insider's view of the process - and who doesn't? - check out Jake's progress in traineefieldguide.blogspot.com.