Blogs from Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 7

Hello again everyone! I have just arrived back in Stellenbosch after an absolutely incredible 10 days! It was our mid-semester break this past week and this will just be a brief blog to show you some photos of my adventures, as well as tell you about the ones that no camera's were allowed on. We left early Friday morning, our form of transportation for the week being a hop-on-hop-off bus, and headed off on our journey across the Southern coast of SA along the Garden Route. Our first stop was Wilderness, about a 4.5 hour drive from Bosch. We went to Wilderness for two reasons: 1-Beautiful beaches 2-I have a friend that I met in Res who lives in Wilderness, and suggested we stop So, we arrive..our backpackers lodge was amazing; it was positioned right over ... read more

Hi everyonee! I am sorry that it has taken me this long to update my blog, but I was waiting until I had some more interesting experiences to share with all of you! If I remember correctly, I had just started classes during my last blog, and was learning how to sookie. Since then, classes have started to pick up and the work is coming in quicker then I would like, but I need to remember that I am actually going to school while I am here in Stellenbosch. I wrote my first paper this past week on the underdevelopment in Africa and South Africa. We had to argue what we thought was the root cause of the under-developmental problem that the African continent is facing today is. I traced my paper back to the slave ... read more

Finally we entered South Africa, the final country in our tour. Our first stop was this amazing little vineyard called Highlanders, which is located in a small area called Trawal. It is so beautiful. I LOVE WINE COUNTRY!!! Sparky was our wine guide for the tasting and the wine here was very good. South Africa is supposed to be famous for the pinot age grapes; however, so far I have not found one that I have liked enough to buy. I did buy a bottle of their Merlot after the tasting. This night was also the last night that we had to sleep in our tent. I was very sad in the morning, to pack the tent up for the last time but I was also pretty happy. Before we took the tent down Jen and ... read more

Hellooo family and frienddss, I have officially been in South Africa for three and a half full weeks! It is absolutely amazing how fast the time has flown by! These past two weeks have not been nearly as exciting from a "blog worthy" perspective, but it is time for an update non-the-less. I started classes last Monday, July 20th, which I probably mentioned in my last blog so things have slowed down a bit since then. My semester course load consists of 4 IPSU classes, which are courses taught in English for the 200+ international students that are on class, and 1 mainstream course which is taught in part Afrikaans, part English. My classes are: -South Africa and the Literary Imagination (English Elective dealing with short stories written by black vs. white writers during the apartheid ... read more

Hello Everyonee!! I am officially in SA! I arrived in Cape Town on Monday, July 13th after 2 days of travel. On July 12th, I had a 10 hour lay-over in London and our friends the Robinson's were kind enough to pick me up for the afternoon and take me around London. We spent a nice afternoon in the city and I got to see Big Ben, Parliament, Trafalgar Square and the London Eye. It was a great way to start this adventure. If you are reading this, thank you so much Jim, Judy, Casey and Will for a great day - - you sure made my journey here much easier! Also, if you see your neighbor tell him that we will be spending the last weekend in August at Overberg within De Hoop Nature Reserve ... read more