South African Journey

In South Africa it’s not that bad being a teenager because Apartheid is over so we can go to schools where children have a different skin colour.  It still really stressful because of all the school work and work from Confirmation class that we have to do but we all manage to do all this work. I have always wondered how being a teenager in America, I wonder if you have to go through all these things that we experience, is your schools tougher than ours or do we all just do the same...

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My name is Priscilla. I am 14 years old and I go to Waverley Girls High School. I have 1 sister and 2 brothers and live in a small town called Norwood. In S.A. we all have awesome and bad times here but most of the time we have happy times. What I don’t like about S.A. is that there is a lot of teenage pregnancy and xenophobia. This is when people get in fights with foreigners. You know, I speak too much different languages which are:  Zulu, Englis...

4/30/10

My first experience in Alexandra was during our In-Country Orientation back in August of 2009. It was during this initial visit into Alexandra that I was introduced to a community that I have now come call home and realize is misunderstood. During orientation we met up with some people from the church that lived in Alexandra and they gave us a driving tour and a short history. Upon driving through we couldn’t help but see what those on the outside ...

What I think American people should know about South Africa:

I think they should know about our historical stories where the Apartheid took place, the big five animals, the South African diversity, different provinces, our stadiums, table mountain in Cape Town, the Kruger National Park, the gold reef city which has a casino and where the visitors can visit, the Apartheid museum, Robben Island and all wonderful places to tour.

What I think abo...

I think people from all over the world must stop saying or thinking that we live in a jungle and the must not think that we have no internet, no cell phone, no real house, no real clothes and no nothing, but if they even give us a chance to make the World Cup in South Africa they knew that we can do that. We are poor, but not that poor to not build a tournament so people all over the world stop that. We as South Africans can do something the rest of the world can not do. We South African̵...