Colby, Bates and Bowdoin students at the CBB Cape Town Center share their thoughts and experiences in an online journal. On November 16, Dana Kramer, Bowdoin '03, posted this dispatch as she prepared to leave South Africa. The rest of Kramer's entry, and others, can be found at the links below.

August 20, 2001
By Dana Kramer, Bowdoin '03
I can't even imagine how going home to New York is going to feel. Unreal, uncomfortable, and it might take a while to regain equilibrium, re-adjust to the right side of the road, mother's cooking (to which I must add, hooray), communicating only with Americans, returning to what might be a very different place than the America I left, where I'll be surrounded by whatever patriotic zeal my countrypersons have recently come down with; also, having to give brief accounts of my experience here over and over again, which I'll be glad to share, but which I cannot imagine summing up well over one cup of coffee or to one of my parents' friends in passing. It has been shocking and wonderful, and has affected me in ways I would not even know how to describe.

July 27, 2001
By Kristen M. Heim, Colby College '03

July 27, 2001
By Rachel Meiklejohn, Colby College '02

August 6, 2001
By Paul Min, Bowdoin College '03

August 6, 2001
By Heather Finn, Colby College '03

August 15, 2001
By Philip Drake, Bowdoin College '01

August 13, 2001
By Kathryn Spirer, Colby College '03

August 10, 2001
By Chris Reigeluth, Colby College '03

August 27, 2001
By Laura Bilodeau, Colby College '03.

August 27, 2001
By Katie Spirer, Colby College '03.

August 24, 2001
By Brendan Ferriter, Bates '03

August 20, 2001
By Noah Lambie, Bowdoin '03

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