I’m just remembering home. Listening to Mae’s the Everglow; all I can think about is sitting on a beach in California with Dustin or in the Marquee with Carly, Katie, and Eric. There have been times when people start remembering I’m gone and leaving me messages on my Facebook wall or sending me emails. When [...]
Archive for April, 2008
19 April, 2008
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11 April, 2008
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I am blown away by the hospitality and the grace with which the Ndalasi family host people. Twice now guests have come over the visit Nolitha while I have been cooking. The first time I was called into the living room and one woman introduced herself. She went on to tell me about challenges she [...]
4 April 2008
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After four days of volunteering I was hoping I would have a handle on how things would work. But as I stepped into the bus leaving Sinethemba I still didn’t feel any more comfortable than I had my first time in Khayelitsha. Today was an adventure, somewhat like usual. Nolitha had asked me to pick [...]
31 March 2008
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I have seen a new side of Cape Town. My knowledge of the area is limited to the main street of Rondebosch, city center, Observatory, Liesbeck, Claremont, Clifton, and Camps Bay (might need to look up on a map these areas but note that most are just small neighborhoods/suburbs of Cape Towns). That is [...]
26 March 2008: We are engaged!
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Engagements in South African culture are a big deal. The woman who runs the NGO I work with, Nolitha, renovated her house for the engagement party of an ASU couple working with her. She cemented her floors and put down tile, got running water and indoor plumbing as well as painted her house. In the [...]
