In the summer of 2018 I went to South Africa as part of my NEA Global Learning Fellowship. We visited Cape Town and Johannesburg, meeting students and teachers, and learning about challenges the South African education system faces. We went to Table Mountain, a vineyard, and places connected with Nelson Mandela including Liliesleaf Farm and his house in Soweto. We also had a powerful visit to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and met with a relative of a victim from the Soweto Uprising of 1976. She spoke on Mandela's unique concept of truth and reconciliation. We learned the song Shosheloza and the meaning of the African concept of Ubuntu: "I am because we are." We visited an art collective and a performing arts school. Our visit ended with a safari in the Pilanesburg Game preserve where we saw elephants, zebras, rhinos, lions and many other animals.