Last
weekend we travelled outside Cape Town to a beautiful olive farm for Human
Rights Weekend. When I first got there, I didn't know what to expect. There
were a lot of new faces and different cultures all mixed into one large group.
The first night we were there, we had a delicious buffet dinner and had the
opportunity to meet our fellow co-educators. We fell asleep on full stomachs
and in the morning, as if out of a movie, we were woken up by roosters.
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| Savannah introducting self to group |
The next
day was full of different activities and workshops that gave us a better
insight as to what human rights are. One specific exercise, called a new world,
stood out to me. Basically, there were two countries that were given the best
land, two that were given infertile land, and two that didnt have any land at
all. Each country had to delegate how much land they should have and how they
were going to come to a solution. This seemed like a fairly straight forward task
at first, but countries started to disagree and become "violent".
This exercise was there to show us how easy it is to revert back to violent
ways of thinking. We were not given a hard task, but we struggled to come to a
solution.
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| Savannah making new friends |
I had a
great time with Africa Unite for the rest of the weekend. It was truly a
pleasure to get to know all of them and can now say that I have friends that
come from all parts of Africa.
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| Savannah receiving Africa Unite Human Rights Training Certificate |
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