Pauline still loving beautiful Cape Town

So, this is my first blog post of March and all I can think about is how fast time is moving. I knew that in this blog post, I really wanted to take the time to reflect on Marita’s last class and Tony Sickel’s discussion on growing up as a "Confused Coloured" in South Africa under apartheid. I was filled with many questions during and after Sickel’s discussion and I kept thinking to myself that he would have been the ideal participant for the activist project I originally wanted to put together. I loved that Sickel reminded students that his opinions were his own and that we may have disagreed with him. The fact that he grew up in the Apartheid era made me even more curious about his life. If it’s one thing that Sickel taught us all, it’s that prejudice is a difficult thing to combat. 

Moving away from Sickel’s discussion, I also enjoyed getting more information on the homestay as I will be taking part in that next weekend. If I am looking forward to anything this month it would be the homestay and the excursion in Johannesburg. I am also anticipating hiking Lion’s Head, Table Mountain and Devil’s Peak and have noticed that many of the Capetonians that I have come across overlook the beauty of these places (at least the people I’ve met). I think that for the rest of my time here in Cape Town I really just want to let the leaves blow where they may. I am having a wonderful time here and I know that I will be graduating from UConn when I return to the states and will only reminisce on the time spent here. Shockingly, the last thing on my mind is graduation, a job and life back at home. We still have almost two more months here in Cape Town so I shouldn’t even be thinking about home right? I told myself that being here would come with a culture shock, new adventures, different foods and interesting people and their interesting stories. From the looks of it, my prediction wasn’t too far off!!! I’m still just loving beautiful Cape Town J J J