FJP 2013: Youlandree Apassamy
Name:
Youlendree “Len” Appasamy
Age: 20
Born in:
Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban
Studies at:
Rhodes University
Studying: B
journ (journalism). Majoring in journalism,politics and English.
Likes: Going
to the beach because weather is fantastic in the beaches.
Hates:
Physics as subject and in general because according to her not everything needs
to make sense.
By Makwana Kagiso
Youlandree Apassamy is 20. She is from White River;
went to White River Primary School and Pernryn College and is now a student of
Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University.
Youlandree loves novels and has read Things Fall Apart by the late Chinua
Achebe. She studies journalism because she loves to write and she likes to
change South African media landscape.
She says her lecturers are excellent especially in
radio production. She applied for the FJP because she believes it alters
students’ lives.
“Funny enough,
[the] Oscar Pistorious story which is bad for South Africa,” she
complained “now tourists are afraid to visit our country because they think all
of Mzansi people are like that.”
According to Youlandree, Pistorius might not be a murder,
but someone who made a mistake, which all human beings are capable of making.
A studious person who likes the challenges in the
classroom, Youlandree enjoys being at university because it’s good to be away
from home. Indeed Rhodes is her home away from home.
