Dias Beach, South Africa

By far, one of the most beautiful places I have ever witnessed with my own eyes. 

MaTi

MaAfrika is one of the things I will miss most about South Africa.  Tomorrow is our last day with them, so this is my little tribute to the time we've had with them.

South Africa

I've been in South Africa for over two weeks now.  It has been an extremely unique and fascinating experience so far.  I feel lucky to be able to call this a study abroad trip, and receive college credit for it.  I have learned so much about the apartheid and how that shaped the South African culture.  How they have come back from that is an amazing thing to learn about.  South Africa ended apartheid only about 16 years ago.  Being here, I have learned that they have a long way to go financially, and a lot of work to do in the education system, but they have come extremely far in forgiveness, spirit, and hope.  To describe my experience in words would be impossible, but I can show some of my photos that can show a fraction of what I have done and encountered. 

No big deal, just the view from my street outside my house.

Some beautiful music on the train.  All of the art and music everywhere I go has been one of my favorite things about South Africa.  Beauty is EVERYWHERE.

We saw this crazy parade in downtown Cape Town.  

Muizenberg Beach

Getting some major weeding done at MaAfrika, the place where we are doing our service learning.  It has been the best part of this trip so far.  

Like I said, beauty if everywhere.  These girls hang out at MaAfrika everyday and dance with us.  They are so talented.

Once again, this has been amazing so far.  I don't want to leave this amazing country.

Zac Spirov & Big Dylan

November in a nutshell

Mr. Scruff Mcgruff

 Colin post tattoo #3

Bear sniffing the sweet potatoes

First ever thanksgiving/turkey made at my house

Baby Vivienne's shower

 Sweet potatoes wedges for the Westcott's. 

 Bear watching the snow fall

Colin on the Mandolin

The Hip Hop Shop WMCN Radio

Colin has a radio show that is on once a week on Macalester radio .  This week he was honored to have St Paul Slim, a local hip hop artist come to the studio for an interview and live performances.  It was a super fun night and I was able to take some photos.  The studio had some really uneven lighting so it was fun to mess around with my manual mode to see what I got. 

DJ Riles P and DJ Ape

Colin with Slim getting ready for the show

 One of my favorite shots of the night

with flash 

The DJs with Slim

Catherine Glynn Head Shots

I had the honor of photographing my gorgeous aunt Katie who is an actress in the Chicago area.  She needed some head shots and I needed practice.  We started shooting around 3:00 so the sun was just on it's way down.  I liked the shots much better once the sun was behind the houses.  We got much more even light and I think we were able to get some pretty awesome shots.  These are a few of my favorites.