Journey continues..!

Back in Brussels! 8 weeks in Cape Town went so fast and I had so many good experiences and memories. Now the analyse part begins.. I have decided to continue this blog until the end of my thesis. I will be reflecting my findings and analyse here during this year.

I can see already from my data (36 interviews, mental maps and field diary) how gangsterism as well as religion are be playing a big role in the feelings of safety in the city for the children. These topics will take a big part in the thesis itself, as well as the lack of trust towards each other inside communities. Still, as a counter power also the strong feeling of identity and solidarity has an essential part in this children's geography. 

Seapoint

I'm very thankful of this opportunity to try to understand realities different than mine. It felt welcoming to be an outsider, recognise own whiteness as a marginal reality in the city, culture, TV. This felt right and eye-opening, how the main reality is no white and has never been. 

I love this feeling. This is the feeling why I travel. To find yourself from the place far away of everything, being no-one, no-one can in a way reach you. Sometimes it feels like a freedom for me. Being surrounded by people who don’t know you, who don’t have perceptions of your identity. Its amazing and terrifying at the same time. In the end, being under transition needs to be temporal, as anything else.

Last workshop in District 6