Traditional dancers performed for trainees in South Africa in January 2011. The dance involved women in traditional dress stomping, clapping and parading around a set of traditional drums that were providing the music for the dance.
Cassie helps prepare pap by violently stirring it until it is thick in consistency, while a woman supervises the effort. Pap is a flavorless corn-based food popular in South Africa. February 2011.
Cathy (foreground) and Barb attended the funeral of a fellow trainee's host father in South Africa in February 2011. Women are traditionally required to cover their heads at funerals, which typically begin before sunrise.
Sindri joins a scramble for the ball with some students during a game of netball in South Africa in January 2011. Netball is similar to basketball and is popular among South African girls.
Instead of meeting outside on a rainy day, my youth group listens to a podcast about the HIV/AIDS crisis on my computer in a classroom at a school in South Africa on March 16, 2012. Everyone, including Nicholus, and his girlfriend Fairytale, payed...