Off Topic: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
I had the great fortune this summer to speak in three cities in South Africa, and I’m blogging about what I saw — both the politics and the exquisite nature — on my fiction author site.
I just wrote about my first day of safari:
The setting was incredible. Pockets of small green trees punctuated vast expanses of golden grass beneath cloud-streaked blue skies. If serenity and awe had a visual representation, this was surely it.Rhino in Pilanesberg
And previous entries address things like my attempts to learn about the local culture:
“What,” I asked them, “should I know about South Africa that I’m unlikely to see on my own?” I followed up with, “what would I see I could leave my bubble?”Students Watch Performers in Soweto
There were some language barriers. But I could be patient.
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