28th april -1st May

This weekend has been a long bank holiday weekend from Friday until Tuesday so there hasnt been much actually going on! Everyone who normally works on site has left so we have had to entertain ourselves.

Saturday 28th
Saturday was awesome as it was the first day that we didn’t have to get up at 6 am! so we had a sleep in and then ashly and sarah came over with some DVDs so we chilled out and watched Brave Heart and Napoleon Dynamite which was wicked! We then went to Sinatras house who is the principle at the school and lives above the children’s home. His family are from Zambia so they cooked us an amazing Zambian meal [maze stuff, with chicken and a chutney style thing!] AND we got to eat with our hands! Get in! I loved it the food was the best we have eaten so far and not having to use cutlery is always a bonus.

Sunday 29th
We visited PCF church in the morning which is the church on site, it is a lot more like harvest although slightly bigger. The big difference is however that they do all their songs in different languages, so you can go from your standard Tim Hughs and then the next moment be singing in Zulu [or one of the other 9 languages!] it made it really fun and made us feel more part of the culture!
In the afternoon sarah took us out to the park to play frisbee [i sat in the sun] and we hung out with the family and kids that she lives with. Afterwards we went to the evening service at NCF which I loved it feels like being at soul survivor because of all the people and the music is so good. The evening was finished by going to Mug and Bean [full of only people from NCF] and having a white hot chocolate!

Monday 30th
Monday was one of the best days I have had here. We got a tx from dean our cell pator telling us that he would take us out for lunch and that we needed to wear shorts and flip flops! He picked us up in his car and off we went! He drove us to 'pick n pay' and we got lots of picnic food and he drove us to Highwick Falls. We sat in the middle of a valley on a rock in the middle of a river at the edge of a waterfall and it was the most beautiful thing i had ever seen. Dean is awesome and knows so much and has lived through so much that spending time with him is always good. The surroundings were so beautiful and i just felt so blessed to be there that it finally broke me and i cried! ha![happy now shanta?] Kate and Anna in my team have probably cried every single day that we have been here so im very proud of myself [considering in England i cry if my bus doesn't come haha!]. We walked to the edge of the waterfall and put our feet over the edge and it was amazing. In the evening we went out with sarah and some of her friends to durban to go go-carting! i was pretty scared as i have no hand eye co-ordination or any form of driving skills but it was so much fun. I managed to not crash into anyone/kill myself so it was a success. The other best thing is that it only cost 2 pounds! Africa is awesome!

Tuesday 1st
Today was also a bank holiday [but the last day of orientation - work starts tomorrow!] so this morning we did our weekly food shop [40 pounds for 5 people for a week!!!] and then we went to Penny from our cells house for a picnic! Her house is like a zoo, she has 5 dogs [grrreat.. :s] loads of parrots, 5 horses, chickens etc!
So we hung out in the sunshine and got to know the people from our cell a little better which was nice. In the evening we went to prayer meeting at NCF which was really good, 1000 people getting together to worship and pray for their city!
The 2 weeks ive been here have been so so good and Im now so excited about getting stuck into the projects and getting involved!