One of those days consumed by travel. I got up, did a few housekeeping things, and set off for the airport. I chatted with the driver a bit (both of them, because we stopped at the city centre and switched) about the difficulties of finding employment. I told both of them my story about finding [...]
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I woke up feeling better and cheered by the view out my window, which was this amazing view out over the city. The hostel was doing a tour of Soweto and then dropped us off at the Apartheid Museum. A woman at the hostel is doing her thesis on tourism in places like Soweto and [...]
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So Beulah was kind enough to pick me up from my B&B where I said goodbye to my landlady (who had been really nice and whose guest cottages were great. Her own house where we had breakfast every morning was immaculate–one of those Better Homes and Gardens kinds of places–and she’d serve us coffee and [...]
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Hmmm, I think I might highlight Friday and from here on out because I’m running out of battery power on the laptop (forget writing this on an Internet-connected computer. I’m beginning to understand the difficulties that people have here with the Internet-either you don’t have access, you have to pay a lot for a few [...]
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I can’t believe I’ve let so much time pass without updating and now of course it’s playing catch up trying to remember everything that’s happened. So Thursday I met with the library folks as well as the 2005 cohort. Walter introduces me Lindiwe Soyozkapi and she took me on a tour of the Life Sciences [...]
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So I have passed my first day and half in Pietermaritzburg (PMB) and have learned more than I could in a month of explanations. There really is nothing like being onsite to see things and see how they go. Walter (Prof. de Milliano) picked me up yesterday and took me to the Golden Dragon for [...]
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Thanks to intestinal difficulties and insomnia, I spent most of the flight from London to Johannesburg awake and watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith (fun and cheesy), Batman Begins (fun and a little dark) and half of Kung Fu Hustle (totally fun and extremely cheesy, esp. if you like parodies and kung fu films as much [...]
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The flight to London was uneventful, just the usual awkwardness of strangers packed together in a small space. I managed to get my one huge bag checked all the way to Durban and put my three bags o’ technology (camera, laptop and LanTEEAL hard drive) in Left Luggage (a misleading term) and trotted off to [...]
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So as I set off on a rainy Saturday afternoon, one thing became abundantly clear. My luggage would have to change. You know how you pack and you think oh I packed so light; this’ll be no problem. Well, not so much. With the third time in two blocks that my duffel bag had tumbled [...]
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Hi everyone! Welcome to my travel blog. Here’s where you can keep up with me as I head off to Africa. I’ll record my travels and adventures (Internet permitting) as I set off on my van Tienhoven Award trip. (Picture the little plan crossing the map in dotted lines as Indiana Jones music plays.) Today [...]
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