Thursday 28 March 2013
Thursday 21st - Sunday 24th - A relaxing weekend
Thursday was Human Rights Day here in South Africa, our first public holiday and so all schools had the day off and then were given the Friday off as well! We made good use of the time off by spending it with friends of our from Howick who invited the team to their beach house on the coast for the weekend. It was just what we needed after 5 weeks away from home, time to relax, spend some time time as team and 're charge our batteries'. The house was a minute from Shelley Beach which was about a 2 and a half hour drive from Howick to Durban and along the coast. We were blessed with beautiful weather and wonderful company - an amazing weekend away!
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Monday 18th - Wednesday 20th - A new edition to the family
Sorry for not writing here for a while, as you probably guessed, it has been a busy week and I have had no time to sit down st a computer and write. I will try to give you an idea of the past weeks events but I might not be able to go into a lot of detail or you could be reading for a while!
Monday started with an interesting event - we got a puppy! Londy, our boss here at Ethemebeni and the lady who lives with us girls for some of the week, came home and anounced that she had a puppy. We went outside and looked in the back of the Colt (Ethembeni's pick up truck/bucky) and curled up in the corner was a tiy black puppy, no more than 7 weeks olds. She was hardly moving and didn't open her mouth when we tried to feed her some milk. She had been found outside Mama Titi's house and Londy decided to bring one home with her. The boys came over shortly after and although Monday is a day off for us, we had a really productive morning of planning and talking over the new projects Grant gave us on Friday. In the afternoon we had a girly trip to the mall in PMB where I had my first 'real' coffee since being here, which I have really missed!
On Tuesday we decided to do what we do best and work from home, armed with cups of tea and coffee and a pack of biscuits.We begun to plan English lessons which we are going to try and run for six weeks, for the staff at Ethembeni who are keen to improve their communication and writing of English. Although we work better at home, away from the noise and distractions at the family centre, it does mean that, due to 'African Time', we sometimes have to wait for a while before the boys can get a car and come and pick us up. In the evening, Ruth and I went to our old home here in Mpophomeni with Nkosi and her three boys. It was so good to see them again after so long! We have been so busy since getting back from Durban and it was lovely to spend a long time with them and catch up. We spent the evening just like we used to, playing lots of card game including 'cheat' which we taught them when we were living there and watching lots of Zulu soaps! Nkosi had made her version of shepherds pie and it was delicious! The evening ended with a prayer and a hymn sung from Nkosi's well used hymn book.
Wednesday we took Poppy (that is the name of the puppy) to the local SPCA in Howick to give her a rabies jab, she also got de-fleed and de-wormed. Our main aim for our visit to Howick was to get paint and rollers for the decoration of Grace Chapel Pre-School so we spent a good while in Build-It getting together what we need for the afternoons of decoration next week. We have chosen a purple hued grey for the bottom of the wall, below where the hooks will go and then above that we are going to have a pale blue sky as the main colour and on top of that we are going to put our main design of creation.
Monday started with an interesting event - we got a puppy! Londy, our boss here at Ethemebeni and the lady who lives with us girls for some of the week, came home and anounced that she had a puppy. We went outside and looked in the back of the Colt (Ethembeni's pick up truck/bucky) and curled up in the corner was a tiy black puppy, no more than 7 weeks olds. She was hardly moving and didn't open her mouth when we tried to feed her some milk. She had been found outside Mama Titi's house and Londy decided to bring one home with her. The boys came over shortly after and although Monday is a day off for us, we had a really productive morning of planning and talking over the new projects Grant gave us on Friday. In the afternoon we had a girly trip to the mall in PMB where I had my first 'real' coffee since being here, which I have really missed!
On Tuesday we decided to do what we do best and work from home, armed with cups of tea and coffee and a pack of biscuits.We begun to plan English lessons which we are going to try and run for six weeks, for the staff at Ethembeni who are keen to improve their communication and writing of English. Although we work better at home, away from the noise and distractions at the family centre, it does mean that, due to 'African Time', we sometimes have to wait for a while before the boys can get a car and come and pick us up. In the evening, Ruth and I went to our old home here in Mpophomeni with Nkosi and her three boys. It was so good to see them again after so long! We have been so busy since getting back from Durban and it was lovely to spend a long time with them and catch up. We spent the evening just like we used to, playing lots of card game including 'cheat' which we taught them when we were living there and watching lots of Zulu soaps! Nkosi had made her version of shepherds pie and it was delicious! The evening ended with a prayer and a hymn sung from Nkosi's well used hymn book.
Wednesday we took Poppy (that is the name of the puppy) to the local SPCA in Howick to give her a rabies jab, she also got de-fleed and de-wormed. Our main aim for our visit to Howick was to get paint and rollers for the decoration of Grace Chapel Pre-School so we spent a good while in Build-It getting together what we need for the afternoons of decoration next week. We have chosen a purple hued grey for the bottom of the wall, below where the hooks will go and then above that we are going to have a pale blue sky as the main colour and on top of that we are going to put our main design of creation.
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