Africa the Real Community

I haven’t blogged in a couple weeks. I have been stuck on what else to write about Africa. Before I left I wanted to have this profound experience about African community, I wanted to be able to compare and contrast their community with mine and I feel like I summed it up in [...]

African Christmas

It’s 5 am and I am awake…ugh! I can’t sleep, it must be excitement or nerves that I will be traveling across the state in a couple of hours to spend Christmas with my boyfriend’s family for the first time. Or it could be anxiety that I still have four more parties to [...]

African Community, Part 1

As I finish up my Christmas shopping I am reminded of all of the material items Americans strive for. I am reminded of all the things I have that many (most) Africans do not. But yet I still purchase everything I want and I get friends and family gifts that I hope [...]