this is the little girl who attached herself to my hand immediately on the first day at tryphinah's house in ha-makuya. coming from someone who is generally unnerved by small children: aww!

i don't have a lot of photos from the trip because of two reasons. 1) the things i wanted photos of eluded me (like the southern hemisphere stars) and 2) i resent having to take myself outside the interaction/make a photographic spectacle of people's homes when i'm traveling. (similar sentiments are why i did my AP art portfolio on abandoned factories and bridges in cleveland's industrial gutter.)

i let the photographer handle it and kept my camera in my bag for the majority of the time. when we get those images from him i'll put a few up for you guys, with credit of course. you'll get to see venda traditional dress. it's beautiful stuff.