And it still doesn't feel quite as real as I know that it is. But I am used to the area around school and where I live, and I am trying to get into the whole school thing. Though it is terribly difficult when you live with 19 other people in a house. I am taking three classes at the U. of Cape Town. A history course called Memory, Identity, and History, about the holocaust, apartheid, and the genocide in Rwanda, and how and what people remember and how trauma affects your identity and memory. A sociology class called Democracy, Social Change and Development, about how cities change and other stuff about urban environments. And a third course in the African Studies which is a graduate course titled African and African Diasporic Thought: Culture, Politics,
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