Summer Snapshots

This past Thursday, June 16th was Youth Day, a South African national holiday in honor of the youth who died during anti apartied protests in Soweto in 1976. Our host family had the day off from school and work, and we were pleasantly surprised to wake up to breakfast for everyone.


On Youth Day, the whole family and some of our host family's friends from Manguzi went to Black Rock beach, a beautiful secluded beach about an hour from Manguzi down bumpy dirt roads.

Last weekend we met up with the rest of our group of Robtertson Scholars in Saint Lucia. This is a picture of all of us on a boat ride in the estuaries, where we saw lots of hippos. It was fantastic to be able to spend time together, reflect on our experiences at work and in homestays thus far, and refocus for our last two weeks of work.

A special thanks to Elizabeth for always taking group pictures, bringing her camera, and sharing images with me!