Posted Sisters, leaving and pictures to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
Today is the day we leave. People are scurrying around cleaning up 14 Osbourne and trying to fit the last souvenir in their checked bags. I know this quote has been floating around a lot, but I'm saying it one more time. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." -Nelson Mandela I'm really excited to go home and tell people about my exciting journey to South Africa but at the same time I'm really nervous. Yesterday at Mug and Bean I asked Brittany, "What if people...
Posted Three things. to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
I've been thinking about a few things. Forgiveness, my sense of time, and confronting issues. On forgiveness, I'm struggling like crazy thinking about forgiveness. Nate, our instructor asked us to think about who we have to forgive at home, what you would say, why we want to forgive them, what we risk losing, if it will be hard. I have two people to forgive and one of them is myself. I've been beating myself up for a mistake made a year ago and I need to just let it go. I think South Africa has been helping me realize...
Posted Forgiveness is hard, bru to Academic Center for Enrichment
I got my debit card stolen. Long story short, I let my guard down and thought the guy was showing me how to work the ATM. As I waited for my card to come out, I relized I had been...
Posted Forgiveness is hard, bru to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
I got my debit card stolen. Long story short, I let my guard down and thought the guy was showing me how to work the ATM. As I waited for my card to come out, I relized I had been played. I'm glad that only my debit card was stolen ( and so far $185) because it could have been so much more could have been stolen. I'll probably get a refund for the stolen money and a replacement card for free. So for taking advantage of three unsuspecting American girls, three men got away with roughly R2800 or $400....
Posted A Call to Action to Academic Center for Enrichment
I haven't blogged much yet because I keep forgetting that this trip is educational, not just a vacation abroad. I knew that I would end up blogging today - in fact, I tried to blog before we went out to...
Posted A Call to Action to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
I haven't blogged much yet because I keep forgetting that this trip is educational, not just a vacation abroad. I knew that I would end up blogging today - in fact, I tried to blog before we went out to Africa Tikkun about how I was ready to come in right with an open heart and an open mind. Today we went and visited the Delft Community Health Center. We saw hundreds of people waiting for treatment. A sister who ran the whole center, who's name I forgot already sadly, talked to us before we got a tour. She said...
Posted Meet me at the Airport! to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
Aniin. Howa mino giizhiigad niij anishinaabeg. Chii miigwech gitchi manitoo wabaminagoog noongoom. Madison Anderson indizhinikaz. Nagachiiwanong indonjiba. Ajijack dodem. Ojibwe translation: Hello, it's a good day my friends. I give great thanks to the creator for today. My name is Madison Anderson. I am from Fond Du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa. I am of the crane clan. So we just got done seeing what Santa brought at the Anderson household. Santa brought me sunglasses. He must know I'm going to South Africa.... So while most families write lists of things they want for Christmas, my family this year is all...
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