Posted Lessons Learned to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
Nate said this experience would be intense -- and he was right. The past few weeks have exposed us to the human condition from Camp's Bay to Delft Township but has also led to a different way of looking at class as a community. Here are just a few of the lessons that we have learned along the way....
Posted "Imizamo Yethu" aka Mandela park to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
Today we went over to Mandela Park also known as "Imizamo Yethu" and we saw the poor part of South Africa. For the past few days I have been saying that I can't believe that I'm in Africa because everything looks rich and expensive but today I actually saw the real part of Africa, and I can't really put it in words because it was so sad to walk through the townships. There were dogs and children everywhere and the place looked dirty and sad. I just can't believe how these rich people that live the other side of the...
Posted Beautiful Cape Town.. to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
I don't where to start or how to explain what took place this couple of days. NYE was amazing. I never had so much fun on NYE before, and celebrating here in SA made it even crazier. Everyone was on the street, jumping, laughing, takin pic, and just being humans. I really loved that, it shows peoples true colors. We went wild and celebrated in African style. We went out to eat a couple of times, and their food is so different from America. Today we went down to McDonalds, and i went ahead and order crispy chicken..man that was...
Posted Capetown, SA to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
We made it!! SOUTH AFRICA!! This is amazing..there is no word to describe South Africa!!!..i'm still not believing we are finally here..the view here is beautiful..the housing is pretty comfortable and the folks here are pretty amazing. Everything is different, and it's not even close to what i imagine it would be like..they have everything here, but cheaper! We got a chance today to look around, just came back from grocery shopping, and that went well. I thought we wouldn't find any familiar food but there was..HUMMUS!! Can u believe that! hummus all the way down here..that was amazing and...
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