Bryan's Human Rights Weekend experience

This weekend we attended the Africa Unite Human Rights Weekend, which I thought was a good experience. First of all I feel that I have to mention that this trip was pretty much hidden in secrecy except for the fact that we knew we would be leaving for a weekend. When we first got on the bus, I must say that a sense of familiarity came over me and I began to think about the first two weeks when every day we had to wake up early and get on the coach bus in order to go exploring some of the wonderful sites that Cape Town has to offer. One of the biggest things that I noticed while going on the 1½ bus ride was the change in scenery, it seemed at first pretty modern to an extent, we could see cities and large buildings, but as soon as we were about 45 minutes into the ride this all changed what we began to see was more farmland and this continued for the rest of the trip and this showed me that Cape Town is truly still developing,  which is something that can be lost if you only get to see the downtown area and a bunch big corporations. When we finally got to the housing for the weekend I must admit that I was fairly surprised, because the actual surrounding area was beautiful and I expected the rooms to be terrible, but they were better than the rooms we have in Rondebosch. One of the things that I noticed was the friendliness of the people who came on the trip excluding my classmates the minute we put our bags down people began to start playing music and dancing (which I have learned can be overdone especially as a refresher activity before each session) and they wanted the students to participate and learn some of their dances. The human rights class if you will, was actually really interesting. I really enjoyed the part where we had to group up and become an African nation of our choosing. This activity was kind of fun I just hated the time frame, because I feel that not only the presentations but the learning itself could have been better if we weren’t rushed. I also think that the asylum activity was really good at showing the process individuals must go through (even though I realized the purpose of the activity and stopped participating). Also as a final statement I must mention that the food served at the location by the staff was amazing. I enjoyed every single course.