As ye may have noticed, I haven't been using this blog since South Africa (switched to Myspace), but I wanted to put up a quick notice about my latest doings. From April 16-June 16, 2006, I will be working for the Point Reyes Light, a small independent weekly in beautiful West Marin County, California! I'll come back to Chicago for graduation on ( Read more... )

it's literally my last hour in Cape Town. the past few days have alternated between lazy wistfulness (sitting at Kloof Nek with Jess, sundowning at Clifton, wandering downtown) and a rush of errands ... I'm sad, but I feel that, as a visitor, I've done everything I really wanted to do here. I also ran into Khanyi one last time by accident, which ( Read more... )

in the past week, we finally rid ourselves of certain unresponsive professors, frequented a drag show, had a farewell braai for the owners of our guesthouses, completed our radio documentary scripts and then today there were 2 adventures. the first of which is best explained in person, and the second of which ( Read more... )

in the (hopefully) continuing pattern of Quakers providing for me in times of need, I'm angling for Breeze Luetke-Stahlman, formerly of IndyVoter, now of WBEZ Worldview, to help me get a summer internship at Chicago Public Radio, since I messed up the Metcalf application process. sigh ( Read more... )

on Valentine's Day a big group of us girls went out with Tim ... he gave each of us one of my misadvisedly bought bunch of pink flowers and we made a little scandal. actually, festooning Meghan's cleavage with the flowers may have caused the scandal. Anyhow ( Read more... )

Saturday night Carrie and I headed out to Muizenberg (beaches and low-key people) and then Tim, Beth, Amreetha and I had a superbly nutritious dinner of chocolate, bread and cheese on the beach. After that was an anthropological adventure with Will, Jess and Rahel ... ask me about it later. I think the story can only be told in person ( Read more... )

yesterday, after an amazing day-long field trip to Robben Island (which is really worth an entry in itself) Carrie, Leah and I went to the 10 Years of Democracy celebration at Athlone Stadium, where President Mbeki was going to speak. I don't even know where to start explaining this experience. We met a really amazing guy named Sizwe who runs a ( Read more... )

yesterday Beth and I, equipped with a newly-repaired minidisc recorder from Bush Radio, trekked out to Nyanga and Phillipi East with Thembani and June of Gun-Free South Africa to check out how prepared the police stations are for the handgun amnesty (for three months you can turn in an illegal handgun without being prosecuted). Nyanga (township ( Read more... )

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late night diner crew: I misses you.

wow. where to start? the following is an abbreviated version of my dazed journal entry on this weekend ... I'm simultaneously trying to apply for a Metcalf, write my presentation on gender transgression in District Six for tomorrow and communicate how amazing this weekend was ... bear with me ( Read more... )