Heyyyy
This week has been CRAZY!! We have been staying in Amaoti with Theo and Zanele and their family, we weren't expecting the car horns to start at 5am!! Amaoti is the township which we are working in. We have been told that white people never stay in Amaoti, we were greeted with an amazing traditional welcome of dancing. Highlights included eating cow intestine, riding in the back of the truck and doing the hokey kokey in the back yard with goats watching.
The 6 of us were all in one room, 3 of us in one bed. At least once Theo asked if we were ok due to our laughing sounding like someone was dying.....
We ended the week with a braai (BBQ) which involved lots of loud music, dancing and so much meat!!
We have just got home to a river coming out our door.... Turns out that a pipe has burst in our bathroom..... Everything is ok now, the water ran straight down the stairs and out the house so didn't damage anything although we have turned the water off so can't have a much needed wash, average time since a hair wash is a week....
We all swapped projects this week, Catherine and Emma are in the creche, Abi and Hannah in the primary school and Pippa and Kez in the secondary school.
Its been an exhausting week but we have laughed so much!
Lots of love
Xxxxxxx
Sounds like you're really enjoying yourselves. Thinking of you as you spend time with the children, have fun. Hope you get to have pancakes, South African style on Tuesday. Lots of love from
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Floods.
ReplyDeleteYou may have seen that we have had floods here in the UK too this week.
Many floods.
We tend to think that because we have material wealth we are strrong, safe and secure, but just the smallest shift in the jet stream, that none of us control, can take all that away! Our modern life can be stripped from us within a moment, and where then will our treasure be?
Store up for yourselves, therefore, treasure in Heaven where moth, rust [and flood] cannot steal it from you.
How do we do that? Well, for six young women in 2014, the answer is to go to SA.
Every missed hair wash, every smelly armpit. Every stubbed toe, burned shoulder, spotty face, quesy belly, tired limb, dusty foot and homesick tear place pennies in the jar. Not on Earth, but in Heaven. And your Father... who cares more about you than sparrows or lillies, and knows what you need, will surely give you all good gifts.
Ail (Catherine's sunday school teacher)
By the measure you give, you are going to receive. So keep loving, encouraging, and burning bright. And as those crèche kids claw at your sunburn remember that even suffering is supposed to be part of the plan!
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like you are truly having an experience of a lifetime out is SA and really enjoying working with the different groups of children. Keep up the good work and enjoy every minute (even the burst pipe bits)
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