For those of you just tuning in...
I have finally arrived in Cape Town, South Africa (late last night) and will be starting my research project in the coming weeks (more on that later). For now, I am busy getting settled and adjusting to both a big time shift and a much warmer climate. I've come here after spending almost two months living in Washington DC. During that time, I created this blog in part to keep family and friends up to date and in part as a personal journal. I included a few pictures as well as links to some of the most interesting exhibits and events that I attended. Feel free to browse - and to comment on - these archived entries. Now that I am here, the tone may shift in a more academic direction as I start visiting schools and having other experiences here. We'll see.
Happy new year, and thanks for checking in on me!
Somewhere I saw the reference to Indicta, based on the book Playing the Enemy. I haven't seen the movie, but the book was very compelling. The beginning might be boring for someone who knows the history or apartheid in South Africa, but I found it quite well done (perhaps covering some of the stuff missing in the movie). Coverage of the final game was riveting. I was in New Zealand when I was reading it and got talking to a bus driver who was a great All Blacks fan. When I first told him about the book, he responded that the South Africans didn't really "win" because it was in overtime. I left him with the book while we explored a beautiful lagoon. When I returned to the bus a couple hours later he had obviously read the part about the final game and made some comment about how it had ended well, or something to that effect!
ReplyDeleteAlso, saw a comment to recommend Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Tim (my son) first read that in school and passed it around the family. We are all big Bryce Courtenay fans now, but his books are hard to find in the US, so grab them and read them in S. Africa if you have time (he now lives in Australia, so you can find his books there as well, and this is often his topic for books).