Posted SAYING GOODBYE...FOR NOW to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am almost arriving back to Minneapolis now, after over 26 hours in transport from South Africa. Surprisingly, I do not think that I will even be that jet-lagged. I adjusted really well upon arriving there so I hope it is a similar experience coming home. I am really sad to leave but excited to see everyone. I will let you know that it is going to be very difficult for me to even try to explain the experience, emotions, lessons, and thoughts that I have had on this journey the...
Posted Jumble to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
Howzit!I want to continue my last entry just a tad. After that extremely heavy experience in Delft, we went to class at the University and added some more weight. It is productive weight though that will only make me stronger. I learned more about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. I witnessed the truth, both powerful and ugly. It was an Act that aimed to heal a nation and have a new beginning. I won't go into all the details, but if you don't know much about it, look it up. I believe that if the United...
Posted Think Again... to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
So yesterday I wrote and felt heavy...today I feel crushed. I passed tonight in the talking circle because I could not find the words to say. I couldn't explain the way I was feeling. I am not sure I can do any better right now but I want to try. At least to let a little of it go. We went to Afrika Tiikun in Delft today and helped in the garden. It was fun and easy. The tide changed soon after. We walked through the township all the way to where the hospital clinic was located. We were introduced...
Posted Weight of the World to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
Well friends, My world is spinning. It's hard to continue like everything is normal after a day like I had today. We went to the District Six Museum and listened to Joe, who told us all about how thousands of colored and black people were forced from their homes and moved into the Cape Flats (townships). The whites did not want to be "contaminated" by blacks and strict laws governed the segregation all around South Africa under the Apartheid. After the museum, we walked to where the District used to be, and it is now just grass full of rubble...
Posted REMEMBER to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
I am going to focus this blog on what I have been learning on this journey thus far. Going into the mountains for three days without even looking at a clock once was more than I ever could have hoped for. I can honestly say that I am not the same person I was driving up the mountain as when I was driving down. The lessons I learned are for a lifetime. First of all...I have never felt so connected in my life before. I was so connected to myself, my group, and the earth. I went through some things...
Posted This is Real. to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
Howzit! (common South African greeting) I think it finally just hit me today! This morning when I went outside to eat my apple and piece of toast! The sun was shining, there was a cool breeze, and I was staring at the giant mountain right in front of me. It didn't look real; it should have been in a painting. At that moment when I opened the gate to the street and looked both ways and saw life happening all around me...it got real. I am on a completely different continent across the world from where I learned everything about...
Posted My Sweet Escape to EDHD 3100 - South Africa: Tracing the Footsteps of Social Change 2011/12
My reasons for going on this life-changing adventure are simple and complex. I want to get to know myself and learn from others in the world. I want to expand my cultural perspective and deepen my capacity to be human. I want to live in the moment and change for the future. I know it will not be easy, but I am ready. Building up to the trip, I haven't been overly thinking about it. I am nervous, excited, anxious, and everything else right now. My heart feels flooded with emotions, good and not so good. So to avoid over...
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