 | Last Week of Classes
2008-05-13, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | My last week of classes at UWC. I can't believe how fast the time has gone!
I was there yesterday, and in the car driving home. We were waiting in traffic to leave, when I remembered something that... |
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 | To Hell and Back
2008-05-11, Oudtshoorn, South Africa. By: travelalex | | “Never drink the water” is a usual call in Africa, Asia or anywhere that’s referred to as “backwater”, but I thought South Africa would be an exception to that rule. After being rushed to hospital in... |
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| True Story
2008-05-08, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | |
I'm standing over the stove in the main kitchen, cooking dinner and talking to some of my housemates. My roommate squeezes in between me and the counter to open one of the cupboards.
Immediately... |
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| Namibia Continued
2008-05-06, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | So, we get to the South African border, and our landlord (who is guiding the trip, having worked with a river-rafting company for years) turns around and announces that he is often not allowed into th... |
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| I have (triumphantly) returned
2008-05-05, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | Much to the astonishment of many, I have returned to Cape Town not only alive, but safely. Well, this is true with the exception of badly sunburned thighs, too many cuts/blisters from paddling to coun... |
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| Long Weekend
2008-04-29, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | It has been an interesting couple of days.
We had a long weekend over the past few days, which meant that I had no school on Monday due to Worker's Day. On Sunday, I went to a braai near Langa and... |
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 | The waterfall of the clouds
2008-04-28, Cape Town, South Africa. By: travelalex | | The first thing you notice as you fly into Cape Town is Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope. The sun was just rising and the light was complementing the natural beauty so profoundly. The mounta... |
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| Out of the Mouths of Babes
2008-04-24, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | The longer I sit in the office, the less motivation I have to continue to work on the description and explanation of how teaching this morning meant. For some reason, I feel that writing word for word... |
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| Not Much to Report
2008-04-22, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | It was a hit home the other day when one of my friends and flatmates here was attacked just a few blocks away. A bunch of us had gone out to eat and ran into her about to walk in as we were walking ou... |
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| Guguletu, Part Two
2008-04-14, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | As the evening wore on, we continued to talk and dance with people there. The initial discomfort left, and I felt truly welcomed by everyone, even with the fact that we were obviously the only white p... |
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| Guguletu
2008-04-14, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I listen to comedy. A lot. My friends make fun of me for it, and (as I've come to learn) don't understand the majority of my jokes because they reference specific comedians and jokes that not many peo... |
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| Gag
2008-04-13, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | Crunch. I pause, frozen in mid-motion.
"Please don't let that be another cockroach."
I look down. It is.
I go get Robbie and ask him to deal with the dying bug. Once this is done, I stand ... |
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 | Johannesburg
2007-10-01, Johannesburg, South Africa. By: juchem | | [b]What:[/b] OR Tambo International Airport
[b]When:[/b] October 2007
[b]Why:[/b] The way to Australia
[b]Who:[/b] Me
[b]Where:[/b] South Africa
[b]How:[/b] Airbus
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| Cockroach Pile
2008-04-06, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | One of my roommates in Ireland said that her biggest dream in life was to be in a puppy pile--something which basically consists of frolicking or rolling on the ground amidst a bunch of really cute pu... |
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| Mom Would Say...
2008-04-04, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I can only imagine that my mother is currently proclaiming her happiness from the rooftops, screaming with joy at the fact that I have posted two blogs within the past twenty-four hours. I must admit ... |
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| Returning to the U.S.
2008-04-03, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | Yes, I'm aware that the title of this journal entry may seem a bit premature, but I can't help but think about going back home. I may not be going back home for another few months, but the time is fly... |
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| Bungy Jumping
2008-03-31, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | Recall the most disgusting noise you have ever heard, and multiply that by, say, a thousand.
You may wonder what this has to do with bungy jumping (as I'm sure you've read the title), and I will le... |
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| Mid Semester Break
2008-03-30, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | My jaw clenched, my fists tightly gripping for dear life onto my camera. “Oh, shit!” exclaims my safari guide, pausing long enough only to incite panic. “Shit! Shit, shit, shit!” His hands ran through... |
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| Countdown to Safari: T Minus One Day
2008-03-20, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I'm sitting at the GDPL office by myself, locked in. Clem, the founder and CEO of the office, ran out in his normal frantic fashion to do who knows what. Before he left, he told me it wasn't safe to b... |
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| Volmoed: A Place of Hope
2008-03-10, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I've just come back from a lovely weekend retreat and holiday away, though my scrapes and sore body do nothing to prove this statement.
Following class on Friday, the 13 of us female MU students p... |
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| My Freckles are Innumerable
2008-03-02, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I'm never quite sure what to write here, partly because I don't know how to reduce everything I've done to such a small space and with such limited time, but also because I'm really not sure what ever... |
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| Raglan Road
2008-03-02, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I talked to my parents on the phone for the first time since I”ve been here, and she’s just told me that she is giving out my blog address like mad, so I figured that I had better update it a bit more... |
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 | Last Sunday in SA
2008-03-02, Cape Town, South Africa. By: candace | | The whole "going back to Korea" process started a bout two weeks ago. It's something I didn't think I'd be doing again, but as John Lennon said "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making ot... |
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| Oops
2008-02-26, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | On second thought, you might not be able to see my pictures at www.snapfish.com unless you have an account yoursel. So, if you want to see them, log in under my username: kerry.mcgrath@marquette.edu a... |
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| Pictures
2008-02-26, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | On my lunchbreak at GDPL-ELP, and I've just used some of their Internet so that I could upload pictures. You can check them out on www.snapfish.com, and it should just be under my name. Most of them a... |
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| Grumbling and Mumbling Makes the World Go Round
2008-02-18, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I'm sitting in the library at UWC, and I'm pretty sure that people are staring at me--and not just because my hair is ridiculously frizzy from the immense heat.
As I said in the last journal ... |
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| And the Business Begins!
2008-02-15, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I apologize for not having updated my blog in so long, but I’ve been quite a busy girl, what with school and Service Learning. In fact, part of the reason that I haven’t had the time or energy to writ... |
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| Taking the Combis
2008-02-10, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I know that people always repeat sayings and cliches for a reason, but I never realized just how true they were until a few minutes ago. Let me explain.
In Cape Town, public transportation is not... |
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 | My first work trip for the year
2008-02-01, Pretoria, South Africa. By: giventofly | | From 20 Jan - 1 Feb I led a group of 17 North Americans on a trip through South Africa, visiting 3 game reserves in the Hoedspruit area where we saw the most amazing game sightings including all of th... |
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| First Day of School
2008-02-04, Cape Town, South Africa. By: Kerry20 | | My first day of classes in South Africa at UWC. I’m sitting outside in the sunlight, with a cool breeze blowing through my hair. There are few, if many, white students and I imagine that we--t... |
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| The First Few Days
2008-02-02, Cape Town, South Africa. By: Kerry20 | | My second day in Cape Town, and I’ve survived (though just barely, because we’ve been on-the-go so much that I’m exhausted). Though already it is almost impossible to relate or describe, I will do my ... |
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 | South Africa
2007-07-20, Johannesburg, South Africa. By: julieanna | | The little girl next to me kissed my hand again and melted my heart while we played a big game of "Duck, duck goose!" on a sunny, South African afternoon. I had to laugh out loud as "Goose!" was excla... |
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 | A Difference in Emphasis
2007-09-21, Cape Town, South Africa. By: herbmather | | The focus of our time in South Africa drew our attention to the different ways we looked, heard, and thought from the emphasis of our time in Malawi. In “the warm heart of Africa,” the people and the... |
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 | Cape Town
2007-09-18, Cape Town, South Africa. By: herbmather | | September 18
We arrived in Cape Town last night for a one-week “holiday.” The trip was uneventful but not without a bit of stress. We intended to bring only carry-on luggage. The restrictions a... |
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 | A topless tour...
2007-01-02, Cape Town, South Africa. By: pierrej7 | | Or, rather, touring in the topless City Sightseeing bus. I made use of the discounted ticket for doing both the Red and Blue routes, the one covering the cultural highlights of Cape Town whilst the ot... |
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 | South African Adventures!
2007-08-17, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. By: gtontour | | Hey All
Gary and I have had an amazing 2 weeks whizzing around the eastern side of South Africa. We started in Johannesburg, not the safest place on earth, but we survived!! We did a really interes... |
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 | My Week in Drakensberg
2007-06-16, Drakensberg, South Africa. By: Ross | | Hi All Sorry only updating you now on my SA R & R but first had to catch up after getting back.
Let me get right into it... Drove to the Drakensberg it was stunning, I had heard that it had snowed ... |
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 | From S. Africa to Kenya
2007-07-17, Johannesburg, South Africa. By: heidijulia | | I'm now with my outreach team, and we just finished working with a community project called Refilwe here in Johannesburg, South Africa. We've worked here for just over two weeks, and it has been amaz... |
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 | Hluhluwe-Imfolozi, no tent camping in the park
2007-07-22, Hluhluwe Hluhluwe Umfolozi Park, South Africa. By: rmalone | | Hluhluwe-Imfolozi,
The next day went to Hluhluwe-Imfolozi. A big disappointment came when we discovered that tent camping was not allowed in the park as far as we could find out. Places called ca... |
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 | Kruger Lower Sabie area -- more
2007-07-17, Kruger, South Africa. By: rmalone | | Although the campground was a little crowded and small, the restuarant bar was so georgeous and the drives around the area were so full of game! |
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 | Portraits of a male lion at rest
2007-07-16, Kruger, South Africa. By: rmalone | | We were out looking for lions the morning after Jerry and Nadxi had had such an amazing experience with them on their night game drive. We stopped in one area where people had seen them but did not s... |
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