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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Three Questions
Everyone here has come to Cape Town with different expectations, priorities, and hopes. Everyone here has different goals they want to accomplish, different issues they want to confront, different lifestyles they want to lead. Everyone here has a story to … Continue reading
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“Hug your neighbor”
Cape Town is starting to feel more and more like home. I am beginning to learn its rhythms, recognize familiar faces, and move through the city with confidence. However, it is much more than just being comfortable here. This week … Continue reading
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On Being a Woman
As he eyed me up and down he said with a smirk, “Some of us need to watch our figure…” after rejecting a cup of coffee. I smiled and chuckled an obligatory laugh and immediately internally reproached myself. How I … Continue reading
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Week 3
For this week, I could write more about some of the observations I’ve made or try to analyze some of the eye-opening events I’ve attended or statements that I’ve heard. I could try to connect these to my own life … Continue reading
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Youth Day
June 16th is Youth Day, a national holiday in South Africa, and thus I was amazed to see over two hundred people, the majority of which being high school students, arrive for the opening of the God has Many Names … Continue reading
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On liberation, youth power and journeys
On June 16, 1976, a series of student-led protests erupted in response to the apartheid government’s introduction of Afrikaans- a variant of Dutch spoken by white South Africans- as a language of instruction for all black schools across the country. … Continue reading
Creating space for myself, ourselves
Growing up, I felt an eternal difference from my surroundings. I am a sensitive type; it was easy for my suspicions to crawl under my thin developing skin and intrude my young beliefs. I was convinced of my hypothesis that … Continue reading
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I Wonder
Whether you were harmed by a single person or an entire system… is it possible to genuinely forgive and move on? I wonder. If you were declared an alien in your country of birth, forced to carry a … Continue reading
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The Domination of Man
Faster, Higher, Stronger has been the motto of the Olympic Games since their inception in 1896 in the modern era. Millions of aspiring athletes, myself included, entertain the possibility of representing their nation at a celebration of physical achievement. Yet, … Continue reading
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Two Visits to District Six
This week we attended an event in District 6, a once multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious area from which all nonwhite people (over 60,000 residents) were forcibly removed in the 1970s. I had visited the District 6 museum within a few days … Continue reading
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