With less than 24 hours until our final exam you can note the stress in the air. Students are sighing out of desperation, there’s some major stress eatin’ going on, powerpoint is working on overdrive to deal with the...
Today, we were given the day off in preparation for our long production weekend in Kashoba. With no classes scheduled for the day, our group decided to take a trip to the craft center of Swaziland, Manzini. After breakfast,...
It’s incredible to think that today was our last formal day of class. We began our day with a global health lecture on cancer and population trends in the morning and a visual literacy lecture in the afternoon. It...
Today was another fantastic day in Swaziland. We’ve been quite busy lately, so it’s been nice to have a couple of days to catch our breath and touch base. We started the day with an incredible global health lecture...
Today was a day full of excitement and anticipation. Tomorrow, we leave for Kruger National Park in South Africa, and we’ll be there for two and a half days. All we can think about is our trip, and what...
After a weekend of celebration, we had to leave Ka-Shoba today. But before we left, we spent the morning interviewing Musa Nkambule, a healthcare worker in Ka-Shoba who survived MDR-TB. While we’ve been studying the relationship between the spread...
Wow. I really cannot think of the adequate words to describe such a beautiful, emotional day. But here’s my (well, our) attempt. Just so you know, our professors Jonathan and Tara got married today. Yes, you read correctly, they...
To run in a place is to know the land intimately; its paths, the twists and turns, the bends. There is no better way for me to connect physically with a place than to run in it, to be...
Today was one of the ‘usual’ days in our course – meaning that we had our global health lecture at ten in the morning and our visual literacy lecture right after lunch. (Our ‘usual’ days are actually not that...
Today started out like a fantastically plain day. I had already woken up a little late after talking to my two best friends back home until their sun was setting and mine was almost rising, (that time difference is...