Stories From Kayamandi: The 7th grade after school program that i work with at the local township was asked to write news articles about their holidays... these are just a few excerts of the kind of things they wrote about... During the holiday I went to Zimbabwe. At first I went to Cape Town International Airport. When I was in a plan called Time Airline my mother bought me a spring roll and a coke. In the plan I felt like going home. I landed on OR Tambo ...

Cederberg weekend recap: The large group of 42 Americans piled back into the good old white vans from the Garden route and once again took to the road last Friday. We had the same amazing drivers as well making the conversation amazing and full of conversations ranging from sexuality to cultural differences. I had the good fortune of being with Clifford who just happens to be one of the most outgoing/entertaining/ fun gay guy I have met here. Anywho… we arrive...

"Their shyness, their unobtrusive gait as they shuffle along the narrow lanes… gives the centre of the town the atmosphere of a ghetto." I have been trying for sometime to understand the mannerism of the colored people in the community here. While many of the students are quite outgoing and not unlike any other campus, a majority of the rest of the "minority" are quite and reserved. They will avoid eye contact before I even get a chance to ...

12 April, 2008 The past couple of days were spent on the West Coast in a rural area complete with nothing more than townships and a small military base. We went to this Saldanha area with our community development class to do service in the area. Thursday was pretty much a waste as we drove for several hours to do nothing more than fight with our teacher about where we would sleep and then braai-ing at like 10 at night. Long story short she put us through an hou...

Sometimes I learn: In My economic class we had a panel yesterday of young development economists. It was very interesting to get the South African perspective on a lot of things that the world is debating. Some things that I learned during this session are as follows South Africa is having a huge problem with education causing the excessively high unemployment. In order for students to make it into college they must take an interest exam, with that only 5 % o...