Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is a comprehensive university based in Port Elizabeth. The modern campus is located on one edge of the city, close to the beach and adjacent to a wildlife refuge. It was pretty quite for most of the time we were there but toward the end of our stay the students returned from their term break and the campus became very busy. At top are my students and I on our first day of class, next is the library (which not suprisingly had a fine collection on the Boer War), next is the International student office which housed the very helpful international staff and has a cafe in the basement where I moved our class because it wa closer to the coffee (it was also warmer than the classroom which was an important issue). At bottom was a sign that really lets one know that the campus is in Africa. "Beware of Monkeys" with a number to call in case of emegency :) The monkeys were scampering around and while we had no incidents we heard some funny stories about the monkeys pursuing students for a bag of chips or a sandwich :)
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