Interactions
Posted June 1, 2017
To be frank, a large chunk of our South African experience was constricted to a very Western culture and style of living in South...Category: Culture
More Thoughts on Kruger National Park
Posted May 23, 2017
Seeing Kruger did make me sad that humans had wiped out the majority of this biodiversity throughout the rest of South Africa (as well...
Wine and MORE Wine in Wine Country, South Africa
Posted May 19, 2017
Stellenbosch, in many ways, is very similar to Evanston — bougie shops and bougie people in a pretty college-y town — but in One...
Thoughts on Kruger National Park
Posted May 10, 2017
As a biology major and (notoriously among our group) lover of flora and fauna, I absolutely loved our recent week in Kruger National Park....
Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Posted May 10, 2017
In 1994, South Africa officially ended apartheid, a period of segregation, violence, and discrimination on the basis of race. It is what Mandela and...
Yikes.
Posted May 5, 2017
(No pictures or the use of phones were allowed during Parliament sessions) Even after hearing how crazy parliament is from my TA and Professor,...
Spring break in Cape Town
Posted April 7, 2017
I came to Stellenbosch without taking any class on South African history, politics or culture, so the only things I knew were of the...
Robben Island
Posted April 3, 2017
The cell in which Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for his 18 years on Robben Island. On April 8, 2017, we took a bus tour...
Being Asian-American in South Africa
Posted April 2, 2017
Before I came to South Africa, I assumed that I would experience at least a few uncomfortable moments due to my race. I surmised...
Pre-Departure Thoughts
Posted March 31, 2017
Within the past couple of months, it has been made clear that I am called into international Christian missions work. This is definitely not the...