 | Cape Town in a nutshell....
2009-08-07, Cape Town, South Africa. By: rupal5481 | | Hey guys!
Sorry for the huge gap between stories. Cape Town was wonderful. We drove to Jo'burg (I am trying to learn the local lingo) and flew from there to Cape Town. One of the other scholars, ... |
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 | Rocks, Water and Wildlife
2009-04-27, Cape Town, South Africa. By: mala | | If you've been keeping track, you may have noticed that our travel experiences are heavy in the backpacking department. Whilst backpacking the upgrades are few and far between. Sometimes a splurge on ... |
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 | Cape Town to Cape Point and Back
2008-11-04, Cape Town, South Africa. By: jennibean | | After Sun City it was time to say goodbye to Danielle and Mason ƒ¼ who headed back home. Sheila and I got a flight to Cape Town. Once in Cape Town we picked up our rental car. It was a very cute Hon... |
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| Pictures
2008-06-10, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I uploaded some pictures of my students to my snapfish account. Check them out! |
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 | 2 days down 58 to go!
2008-06-06, Cape Town, South Africa. By: abrookdg | | Hey Friends and Family! First off, the wedding was great. We had a blast and hope you did to. Second off, things could not have started better. Smooth travels over here and no problems in thi... |
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| One More Month
2008-06-02, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | I looked at the date on the calendar today, and tried to picture my life a month from now. I will be spending my last day/night on the African continent (in Egypt, nonetheless) before returning to the... |
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| Situation in South Africa
2008-05-24, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | | First of all, I feel the need to preface my journal entry with the assurance that I am still alive and well.
A few people have been asking me about the situation in and recent events involving Sou... |
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| 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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| 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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| Things to Know About Living in Kimberley House
2008-04-06, Cape Town, South Africa. By: kerry20 | |
1. 1 out of every 5 times you look for something to eat, you will notice that someone has eaten some of you food. In one case, this involves discovering that someone has literally taken a bite out... |
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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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