This is the view from our apartment in Cape Town, which is in the Gardens neighborhood, just under the Table Mountain cable car. The little stars are actually raindrops catching the flash of my camera. This is the 5th day of rain in a row, though the weather is ever-changing. The sky over the mountain will be dark and filled with danger, while the harbor dances in the sun breaking through the clouds. Zora and I drove up the West Coast, north of the city a couple of days ago and passed under rainbow after rainbow along the beach.
Yesterday, we were on the UCT campus and shared workshops with UCT theater students led by faculty member Gay Morris (who runs a very high energy room) and Heather Schiff from Playback South Africa. Here's a photo of Zora with Becca's good friend/collaborator Gamal Palmer who teaches the Yale Summer session course with Becca and Meredith Coleman-Tobias. Z loves her Unc Gamal and Meredith! She is adding her thoughts to an end-of-day check in with the students...
Today, we started workshops in Guguletu, a big township near the airport, in a clinic associated with the University of Cape Town Public Health program. The students are working with a group of sero-discordant couples (one HIV+, one HIV-) -- and they are amazing! So willing to jump in physically. Many of them speak Xhosa as a first language, so we are lucky to have Thando, a local theater artist, to translate and participate in the workshop.
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