Molly and Devin Stroll Through South Africa: Archive

Cape Town/Shark Cage Diving

D: Last weekend our big happy family (or the group we spend every second of every day together) went to Cape Town because we had a five-day weekend; you mad Nick Matra? Friday we had off for Freedom Day and Tuesday for Workers Day. We shacked up in a hostel; I was prepared to get dragged out of Cape Town by my ankles at the end of the weekend (right Red??). We arrived on Friday morning prepared to...

May 12th

MY Homestay Weekend

So I’m kinda bad at this blogging situation. But i do want to give a recap of my homestay experience…even if it is a week and a half late. Anyhow, Megan and I stayed with a middle class colored family (culture lesson: colored is actually the racial group, not a derogatory term) in Idas Valley (a colored community right next to the University). The family consisted of a mother,...

Apr 23rd

Kayamandi Homestay

D: This past weekend everyone on our program did a homestay with families in the Stellenbosch areas. Between sixteen students there were four different sites. Within each site the students were paired off and put into different homes. In an effort to help us understand the entirety of Stellenbosch the areas ran the socioeconomic spectrum, from very wealthy to very poor. I was placed in Kayamandi,...

Apr 20th

Apr 11th

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Apr 10th

Garden Route

D: So this past weekend our group went on a guided tour of the Garden Route. It’s a stretch of coastline that is filled with touristy things to do. We left a little after 7:30 in the morning (due to Molly’s lateness) (M: FALSE) ready to take the country by storm. After a quick lunch at a game lodge, filled with gear Dana would die for, we were back on the road, and by that I mean we had 20...

Apr 10th

Week 1

D: So this post is mostly a teaser for what will I’m sure be a monster post after our weekend (we’re going on the Garden Route, essentially a giant park with a ton of touristy things to do). (M: Giant Park as in coastline where people like to vacation because it’s beautiful beaches and rainforest). We had all our classes this week and it was nice to begin doing legitimate things again on a...

Apr 5th

"Orientation" Week

Tuesday D: After a long day of travel on Monday (20 hours of flying, a 6 hour layover and 5 movies) not many of us got much sleep the night before. We had orientation all day, which just consisted of touring campus, getting cell phones and an introduction to the program. D: This is called the Red Plain and it’s considered the center of campus. Not the worst place to hang out. After the...

Apr 1st

Pre-Departure

D: Because you’re reading this blog you probably know that I’m studying abroad in South Africa for Spring Quarter. To be honest I hadn’t really thought about coming here that much during Winter Quarter and it crept up on me. Between finals and spring break it’s fair to say that I wasn’t really ready for South Africa heading into my 16 hour drive back from South...

Mar 29th

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Mar 29th