With the semester coming to a close (though i go until mid-June) it was time for one last big trip before finals. We decided to go to Afrikaburn, the South African equivalent of Burning Man. So at 8 AM we loaded into a huge bus, drove six hours in the Karoo Desert and found our [...]
One of the most important things that I have learned while in South Africa, is how meaningful it is to give back, to volunteer, to help others. This sounds really cliché, american student going abroad to help poor african children, but at the same time there are people in dire need of services and who [...]
There are many different types of beer. Go to any Wegmans and you’ll see a plethora of options. What you won’t see on their shelves however is traditional beer made from maize. I got to try some when i visited Soweto (one of the largest townships, located outside of Johannesburg). Xhosa beer is typically made [...]
Spring break. It finally came. No classes for a week, no tests, no papers. A full week of relaxation. Unfortunately waking up at 5 A.M. the first day of spring break is not what you’d think of as relaxing. But it was worth it because we were going on a safari in Kruger National Park. [...]
There comes a time while traveling when you are confronted with food that you are not used to. The vast majority of the time, the food looks normal, is actually very common and you have just never come across it before. That was not the case with smiley. Smiley is one of those food that [...]
This semester i have become very involved with an organization named Shawco. Through this organization, i go to Manenberg Township and teach fourth graders english twice a week at Manenberg Primér School. Here are some portraits of some of the kids i work with:
District 6 was a pre-apartheid area in Cape Town. It was an area where people were forcibly removed from their homes and resettled into townships based on race. District 6 is different from many of the other districts, because it was a place where whites, blacks, indians, malaysians, and khoesan lived together peacefully, therefore going [...]
