Khorixas, Namibia
"Decolonizing the Mind." When I received the program manual with this phrase on the front I thought I had an idea of what this meant and what I would be studying during my semester abroad, but after my rural homestay I have truly been pushed to breakdown my previous conceptions and challenge the ways I once classified people.
It was hard to acknowledge that before my rural homestay I had equated rural with poverty. I had taken a look at all the material thing...