Posted Things I will miss about South Africa to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
1. Dairymilk Chocolate - specifically white chocolate because it's my favorite, but they are all amazing and I hope we can find this in the US because we are all obsessed with it! However, not the Turkish flavor. 2. Hunter's - South Africa's version of a Woodchuck or Crispin. The lemon-flavored kind is the best. Yummmm 3. Not having my cell phone - I do have a provided cell phone to use here but never use it and it is very refreshing to not be constantly checking my Blackberry for texts/calls/emails. Hopefully I can get out of the habit when...
Posted Tuesday, January 11th to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
Today we started out by going to MaAfrika Tikkun. Our group split into three separate groups for different tasks. One group sorted and organized things in their stock room, one group peeled potatoes for the kids' lunch, and the other group continued the task of weeding the garden. After some time doing those tasks we got together and went to a Delft community center that teaches job skills. First we learned that the building was vandalized a while ago and then it was rebuilt in 39 days. It was a very beautiful center, and the facilities were very up-to-date with...
Posted 1/2/2011... really?! to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2010/11
Happy 2011! Although it took some trials and tribulations to finally get here, the experience has already been so great it's indescribable. We haven't even begun doing what we came here for! It's just humbling to actually be here and experience and see what we've been learning about in Minneapolis, when it seemed like we'd never get here. But it's real life and we are actually on the continent of Africa, even though it feels like a dream! Like I'm sure others have said, pictures just do not do Cape Town justice. It's beautiful! Table Mountain is almost everywhere you...
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