Our final class was outside on the patio of our guesthouse in Johannesburg. How to finish, close off, complete, make sense of, this intense learning we experienced together? How to prepare to answer the inevitable “How was South Africa?” when our minds, hearts and spirits are so full? Images, feelings, questions, smells, inside jokes, […]
Sitting in the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam we are saddened that our time in South Africa has come to an end, yet reflective of the powerful month we spent learning about the pain and complexities of such a beautiful country. As we concluded our final few days in South Africa, we continued to learn about […]
Our week in Johannesburg was wrapped in unexpected outcomes. From our meeting with the Culture Religion and Language Commission, Ponte City, to Hector Pieterson’s memorial, we were constantly on our toes, unprepared for the thought provoking information we learned. Our first stop in the morning was a meeting with the CRL Commission about the commercialization […]