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| Taylor & Katherine |
Over the weekend, 16 of us toured
the coast of South Africa and stopped at various wildlife reserves to see
lions, elephants, cheetahs, rhinos, hippos, lemurs, and other African animals
that I feel like you have to see when you're visiting here. I jumped into the
Indian Ocean and was delighted at it's beauty and warmth. I noticed that the
areas we traveled through were definitely predominately white and upper class,
and the craft fair and shopping centers we visited were populated by white
South Africans and European tourists, mostly. It felt as if we were in a
different country from Cape Town, and seemed to resemble Maine or Rhode Island
in the summer.
We returned from our weekend and had
our second week of internships, which for Erica and I was a productive week of
planning events for Prevention in Action to create dialogues between community
members and stakeholders in order to find and work towards solutions for sexual
assault and security in Khayelitsha. Soon we will draft proposals and budgets
for a debate, dialogue event, and a weekend at a camp for women. After a week
of being unsure if I'll be able to actually aid the communities in Khayelitsha,
I'm glad we have plans for real events.
This weekend we have a few days off,
for the first time, and I'm excited to explore thrift stores and do some
hiking. I can't believe we've already been here for a month and I know I have
to stay active to have the most full and enriching experience I can.
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