Blogs from Africa - page 2710

url='/Videos/4089.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4089.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Congolese dancingurl='/Videos/4091.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4091.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'And I have no rhythm... This past week was my last working week this summer which is totally nuts! On Tuesday I gave a 3-hour (!) workshop to the camp's teachers on children's rights. There were about thirty of them, some Malawian and some refugees. I studied children's rights last fall but we focused entirely on U.S. law so I had to spend some time last weekend reviewing the international law! It went really well and it was as educational for me as for them, I think. The teachers really payed attention in the beginning (the boring part) and then when we broke into groups to start looking at real-life situations they all found very creative ways of appl... read more

so we are staying at a place called red chilli, totally for tourist, on a side note, we are staying in a dormitory with 8 beds and teh other nite i was first one in bed and a girl came in and faced the other way to take of here shirt, she then turned and walked about the room talking to me, she then took off her pants and pole vaulted into her upper bunk, it was a nice suprise, u have to love those eastern europeans, today we went to plan the rest of our trip, we decided to fly rather than a 27 hour bus ride, we then went to a markeyt to shop, i hate shopping as many of u know but it was okay, i like to barter but then i feel ... read more

So I know up until now, my blog has largely talked about the culture and landscape of the places I’ve traveled. However, it is important for us all to remember that I am in Cape Town on a study abroad program, to learn all about South African law. Today, I had the opportunity to shadow an attorney with the second largest law firm in Cape Town and find out what it’s like to work in the legal profession down here. Another girl from my program, Maura, and I left our house this morning and arrived at the law firm, which is located on the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in the CBD of Cape Town. After making it through security (which was mildly harrowing), we arrived, and were greeted by our attorney, ... read more

So.... eeearly Friday morning we departed from MS-TCDC in a series of three army green hummer-like safari cars... it was great... Our first stop was the SNAKE PARK... which, as you can imagine, not many of the girls were very excited about... but I was brave and told the guy I wanted to hold a snake, so that I could get a picture, because Juan loooooves snakes.. They also had crocs and turtles there... Next we went to the Maasai Cultural Museum.. for those of you who don't know who the Maasai are, they are an indigenous ethnic group in Tanzania and Kenya which are rather nomadic and are very well-known and distinguished by there red and blue plaid "maasai blankets" and large earlobes, because they stretch them out as children. After we went through ... read more

We are leaving for Uganda in 3 Weeks from yesterday, July 18th 2007. We will be traveling to make some improvements at a school in Masaka. Anyone you know who can give us some assistance, donations are always being accepted. We are doinga follow up trip from a previous group who traveled there. Some things were left unfinished. Our main Goals: Dig the well deeper Install slow sand filters Expand the solar panneling Provide a rain catchment system at a school in Bira ... read more