Joel Elliott's Page
Profile Information
- First Name:
- Joel
- Last Name:
- Elliott
- Hometown:
- Indianapolis, IN
- School/Organization Name:
- Peace Corps
- Job Title:
- Volunteer, Community HIV/AIDS Outreach Project
- City:
- Polokwane Area
- State:
- Limpopo, South Africa
- My Ideal School is a Place Where:
- teachers view themselves as learners with the students
- My Personal Motto:
- go where there is no path
- Recommended Reading:
- my favorite book on education: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
- Quotable:
- "ubuntu"
Joel Elliott's Blog
Installment Two: Continuing What Mandela Started
18 July 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADIBA!
In my country we go to prison first and then become President!
Today is a day of great celebration in South Africa and around the world, a day which marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, or Madiba, as he is endearingly called here in the Motherland. “If the world could have one father,” Peter Gabriel once said, “the man we could choose to be our father would be Nelson Mandela.”
Most are familiar with his story: a rural boy who… Continue
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADIBA!
In my country we go to prison first and then become President!
Today is a day of great celebration in South Africa and around the world, a day which marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, or Madiba, as he is endearingly called here in the Motherland. “If the world could have one father,” Peter Gabriel once said, “the man we could choose to be our father would be Nelson Mandela.”
Most are familiar with his story: a rural boy who… Continue
Posted on July 16, 2008 at 11:30am —
Installment One: Snakes, Professional Wrestling, Shosholoza, and a (Sort of) Rainbow Nation
PREFACE
The following is a humble attempt to amusingly portray both the normal and abnormal experiences I am having as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa. It is also a forum for sharing my reflections on what I am witnessing and learning, both as an interested observer of South African culture and as a partner with the people in the process of awareness and development. I hope to bring you along in my journey with sufficient light-heartedness and humor, but above all, reflection is my aim.… Continue
The following is a humble attempt to amusingly portray both the normal and abnormal experiences I am having as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa. It is also a forum for sharing my reflections on what I am witnessing and learning, both as an interested observer of South African culture and as a partner with the people in the process of awareness and development. I hope to bring you along in my journey with sufficient light-heartedness and humor, but above all, reflection is my aim.… Continue
Posted on April 15, 2008 at 10:00am —
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I heard from Sam about the work you are doing here in SA. I live in Cape Town right now, had a fulbright here in 2005 to make a documentary and came back to lecture at a university and do outreach around the country for the film, Testing Hope, as well as a bunch of other things. Hope you are enjoying Limpopo and the work that you are doing. Would love to hear more about it. And if you ever get a break and make it down to cape town, definitely let me know. I may be up in Limpopo if the university ever gets back to me and says they want me to come... it's all in africa time I guess.
Hurry up and save SA, you are needed back here in the USA. Miss you man, Sam the Man is changing the World...we need you to help us keep it real! --T
Hey -- check out Molly Blank's page here. She is a filmmaker in S Africa, doing very cool stuff in line with all that you value. You two should connect.
Keep those blog posts coming. I'm looking forward to the next installment . . .
Ted
I read that you are in the Peace Corp. I just wanted to let you know that one of my clubs, the Gay-Straight Alliance, sent $350.00 to the Medical Clinic in Bondo, Kenya to help with meds and education in an effort to help prevent the spread of HIV this year. Last year a different club I advised sent $1500.00 to Kabey Fo, Niger through the Educate Tomorrow Organization. If you are still there in the fall, let's talk about some fundraisers that my clubs can do to help out. Thanks so much! I admire those like you who help the world.