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...
Today was our first back at “home base” (The Sibane Hotel) in five days. The past week has been unbelievable, between traveling to Kashoba, meeting the Mkoko family, speaking with the staff at the local health clinic, conducting interviews...
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...
Time seems to work differently in Swaziland. We’ve done so many different things today that I can’t quite believe that it’s only 9 PM! We began the day with a global health lecture on child health. Our discussion centered...
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...
Watch the students practice their interview filming skills as the other classmates describe their experience in the course so far!
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...