Submitted by Lejan Castro on the 2018 winter session program in South Africa sponsored by the Department of Human Development and Family Studies…
During our bus tour around Pretoria, South Africa, we stopped by the Union Buildings. At this site there were two little girls. The older, of the two girls, had a phone out and was taking a photo of a younger girl who had her hands spread out mimicking the pose of the Nelson Mandela statue.
After taking her photo, I was standing around admiring the surroundings of the site, when I saw the older girl pointing her phone camera towards my friend and me. We smiled for a photo and then continued walking around the Union Buildings. As I was walking to the back to our bus, I saw the girls again. They had managed to grab the attention of many of my other classmates. We were all taking selfies with one another and taking photos of the girls in front of the buildings. Although the Union Buildings were beautiful to admire and learn about, interacting with those girls made this experience that much more memorable.