this week was spent in cape town. i like cape town and i'm pretty excited to do my isp there. it definitely has a more european feel to it, but i would definitely not say that it's not a real african city. all you have to do is step out of the city and into the townships and take a look at all of the shack housing and then you remember where you ( Read more... )

splashy fen this weekend was pretty amazing. but it was really muddy.

we arrived on friday and found that my group had to work the late night shift (we were working selling tickets). so we all decided to walk around the festival before our shift. bad idea. it was late, it was muddy and i was wearing flip flops. of course, my cheap ass replacement ( Read more... )

some other little things i forgot to mention about the rural homestay ( Read more... )

I have just returned from the rural homestay. In an effort to save my own time and prevent you from having to read a novel, here is a list describing some of the things that I enjoyed (or didn’t) during the course of the week.

Things I want to remember-Rural Homestay

1. the way the stars look at night (the entire milky way is visible
2. the way the sun ( Read more... )

oh, i've almost forgotten...yesterday, we returned from our field trip to find that some people had their stuff stolen! it was so ridiculous...apparently, the door doesn't always lock properly and someone just came in and stole a girl's computer off her desk and another girl's backpack (complete with camera, cell phone and wallet). so needless to ( Read more... )

tuesday was my birthday. it turned out to be a lot better than i expected. well, aside from confusion and general anxiety about not knowing what was going on half of the time.

after we got out of class, i was going to go home. when i about made it home i realized that my family may not be home. i asked sdu (one of the people who works for sit and ( Read more... )

Here’s recap of what I’ve been up to the past week:

Monday: class all day

Tuesday: We had a half day. I desperately needed cash, so I ended up going to the mall with Amanda so that I could access an ATM. There we shopped, and I picked up a few necessary things and bought two long skirts for the rural home stay. The skirts were super cheap (not to ( Read more... )

saturday we headed for the south coast on the eastern cape. there we hiked along the beach for what seemed like a good mile or so. then we travelled up the river. if you've seen the movie "blood diamond", this movie was shot in the area in which we were hiking (even though the movie is supposed to take place in sierra leone). it was gorgeous. i ( Read more... )

this weekend was amazing ( Read more... )

yesterday i bought my first "legal" drink at the beach. it was fun. i was going to abstain from alcohol until my 21st, but decided that it was a kind of stupid idea.

but, yeah, we had an afternoon off yesterday and i ended up enjoying myself. we went to the workshop (a mall type thing in downtown durban), then we travelled to the beach and ate ( Read more... )