Youth for Understanding South Africa International Youth Exchange
The “editor’s” OUTRO: Now you’ve read all (hopefully) the words that we put together for You and I bet Your head is buzzing with thoughts!? With some luck, I could hope that the thoughts are positive and You realistically see that our students learned some things for life during those two weeks. They took their tasks seriously and found stories and people that are not simply shallow or artificial, but analyze and learn from their mistakes. I personally, am very proud and happy to see this. I admit, I took the risk and challenged the adult audience of this newsletter to look straight into the eye of some tricky things that our students saw in the more rural areas of the country even though sometimes it is not so pleasant to hear those gloomy stories. I did it with a hope, that one more step could be taken towards the acknowledgement of all the sides of the same Rubik’s cube – the same beautiful country of South Africa. The final word is: the students are happy, we are happy that they are happy and the reality has been seen as well as learned from!
Henri (Finland) and Silvio (Switzerland) with their host brothers dressed in traditional clothes
Henri, Nele, Emma, Dominik – thank you for your colourful photos! Other photos were taken Gaby, the intern. 11 Youth For Understanding South Africa Newsletter Cultural Exchange