Cheers, everyone!! I write to you from the Abu Dhabi airport where luxury is all about (seriously, if you haven’t flown through Abu Dhabi, you should plan to soon– it’s just beautiful!). As I was patiently waiting for my...
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,...
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...
Waking up miraculously cured after a throbbing fever yesterday, I should have known that today would be full of pleasant surprises. We started by walking to the Jabula store (local corner shop) where we waited by the main road...
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...
One of the things I love most about this class is the random opportunities that present themselves at the most unexpected moments. Yesterday, while visiting the shopping center down the street from the hotel, two of our classmates discovered...