2015 Co-educators

2015 Co-educators
2015 UConn Co-educators Begin Their Cape Town Adventures

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG

As anyone who has participated in UConn's Education Abroad in Cape Town will tell you, there are no words to adequately explain the depth of the experiences, no illustrations to sufficiently describe the hospitality of the people, and no pictures to begin to capture the exquisite scenery. Therefore this blog is only intended to provide an unfolding story of the those co-educators who are traveling together as companions on this amazing journey.

As Resident Director of this program since 2008 it is once again my privilege and honor to accompany another group of students to this place I have come to know and love.

In peace, with hope,
Marita McComiskey, PhD
(marita4peace@gmail.com)

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Maria's loving this amazing place



We’re about halfway through our journey here in Cape Town and I honestly cannot picture leaving this amazing place. The past couple of weeks have been so busy and I hope it continues because I love all the activities we’ve been doing. I am getting scuba-certified along with a few others and it is so much fun. It such a unique experience exploring the water and especially being able to breathe under water with all that equipment on. I am a little nervous to start diving in the open ocean since I am pretty scared of what lurks in it but I think it will help me get over that fear. Today a large group of us went sand-boarding and it was awesome! We traveled about 40 minutes to an area called Atlantis where they had beautiful sand dunes. They were all different heights, some being steeper than others, luckily I was able to get the hang of it pretty quickly since I have been snow boarding before back home. Christina, the instructor and I built a jump to make it a little more exciting and the picture here is me going off that jump mid-air! We have a lot of things planned during the next week like sky-diving, scuba-diving, a color music festival and a concert at Kirstenbosh; so this is definitely going to be one of busiest weeks yet. I am so excited for Morgan and her friends to come visit next week. They studied abroad here last year and the fact that they want to come back and spend their spring break here just proves how amazing this place is!

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