Haven't posted here in a while...

Next stops:  Paris and Barcelona!
14 December - 28 December 2012

Educate, Empower, Conserve

This is a really great organization started and led by my friend Pierre:

Global Spokes

If you're interested in supporting Global Spokes in any way, please let me know! I could not give any charitable organization a higher recommendation.

Sometimes I

I don't know if anyone reads this anymore, but I will keep writing anyway. I don't want to forget any of the emotions that my journey made me feel, which is why I journaled so ferociously and why I am keeping up this blog, I think.

This morning I woke with Stellenbosch/Mfuleni on my mind. That was a really tough part of the trip for me, but it also defined a lot of why I went to South Africa and how South Africa changed my world.

South African History

Studying South African history in my African History class really makes me miss South Africa... I don't even know how to describe how much I miss it, how much I want to go back. It's not missing, really. It's some feeling I don't know the name for. There's a part of my heart that belongs to South Africa, but it just as much belongs to me. I feel my experience there in my daily life here. Maybe I will be back to write more about this weird feeling, when I am not so out of it. But, maybe not.

Recap

the next time i sleep in a bed it will be my own

don't get traveler's diarrhea
it sucks
(more on this experience when i get home in a few hours)

grahamstown:

markets markets markets coffee markets delicious food markets play markets film markets markets markets sleep dorms nasty food markets markets play markets film markets.

the markets are overwhelming! so much stuff so many people so much going on.

still love it here but looking forward to going home
(and really dreading it too)