Not part of the massive update

I'll talk about my week in Northern South Africa when I can upload the photos. This blog will be mega-interactive, just you wait.

So. Classes start tomorrow and I am utterly unprepared. Right now I would give vital organs for an internet connection in my room and a 5 subject notebook, both of which have proven very difficult to acquire. On the bright side, I caught the bus to the glitzy Rosebank mall yesterday and bought the correct converter, as well as an $8 french press, some cheese, and a fuschia towel. Now I can watch my Six Feet Under dvds in my room while drinking coffee. What a difference a few things make. I hope I can find somewhere around here to rent DVDs.


While I am in South Africa I will be interning for an organization called the Khulumani Support Group, and their website is www.khulumani.net. The purpose of the organization is to advocate for those affected by Apartheid era violence.


This block I am taking "The Media and Human Rights", "African Literature and Human Rights". as well as a human rights core course and a course to supplement my internship. I am sure that by the end of this program I will be ready to sell out and work for a multi-national corporation, mining or selling cigarettes to infants, my sensitivity to the plight of man dulled by overexposure to the discourse on human rights. Maybe.