First day of school :D Everything went
really well. I have 3 others in my class. Ashley (18 from Perth,
Australia), Jaques (21- Pretoria, South Africa), Brittany (23 –
Georgia, USA :D ). Our leader Tshpeng (South Africa- group leader), Geoff Kingsford
(Australia - base leader), Ben (England- teacher) and Johanna (Sweden - elder). Today was chill and
was more of a getting to know eachother day and just chillin.
9/12/12
Today was orientation. Had classes in
the youth room. Toured Kloof (the county i'm in). Made dinner (curry) with
Brittany and Ashley.
9/13/12
It's super busy here. Woke up this
morning had classes at 9. before we have breakfast at 7am-7:30am.
Then til 8am is personal devotions and then we have work duties of
cleaning til 9am. Finished orientation. Went shopping for craft
supplies to design our creative journals for the school. Pretty chill
day. Raining, lightning, thundering, and haling :)INTENSE!!! sounds
like a war zone lols.
9/14/12
YAY! Free day :) today we are suppose
to go tour Durban to get a feel of the surrounding area and I'm
excited, but it looks like rain once again so we might just go to the
Pavilion (the mall).
But it has been a pretty busy week! We
all have work duties that we switch every week and it's mostly
cleaning and cooking (being a janitor in my last few jobs has not
been a bad practice). Most Africans that we would consider middle
class are used to not working because having a domestic helpers
(maids, gardeners, etc.). Having two American girls and an Australian
girl in the DTS is kind of funny to the two african guys because we
actually know how to work hard. Everyone here is fairly tidy so far
so it's not that much work either.
One big culture difference though is
the “white” africans ( People are known as black and white,
because they are all African so it doesn't help calling them anything
else, and they don't really care.) Any way, white africans will talk
and talk, but as one of the American leaders here put it, it takes
forever to get to the point!. Americans can be very frank. We speak
our point and then stop (most of the time compared to africans :D ).
But having patience for that is something God is growing me in right
now :D This Friday and Saturday are free days so I'll have a bit of time to write :)
9/15/12
BEST DAY EVER!!!! So today started out
pretty just okay. It was rainy and SUPER cold, and we decided to go
out :/ why? Idk :) but we went to get some coffee but we went to the
beach first. It was really cold and wet; then we got coffee then went
to the mall. Ended up getting slippers because ITS COLD! Came back to
base and our idea was to chill out and decorate our journals make
dinner (pizza) and relax. BUT there is an American girl here named
Chloe (26- Buffalo, New York). She actually works with the church
youth group not YWAM. Here in SA all youth groups are on Friday night
so there is a bit of competition. The presbyterian church I'm staying
at has full out war against this anglican church's youth group. Now
the anglican church was supposed to come and attack the presby church
but NOOOO! They dont stand for that nonsence :D hehe. So the youth
pastor, Brad, bought every single water balloon in the area
(literally he went to every place that sold them and bought their
stocks). Everyone had a bucket of water baloons! So in the very, very
cold damp night we all hid in the gardens, trees, rooftops, bushes,
you name it! I was with Chloe and this other girl named Dan. Chloe
and I were running on straight adrenline! It took forever for the
youth group to actually get there and they kept driving past because
they were sissies and did not want to face us! But when they did get
there OH BOY. Let me just say.....AMERICA!!!!! WHOOO we kicked their
butts! Chloe was like a mad woman throwing balloons kicking the gate
open and rushing them I was the archer in the back with balloons
hitting them. We drove them back and we used so many ballons WE RAN
OUT! So I grabbed the hose and filled the buckets and together Chloe
and I rushed to the front lines. Like good Americans we stood back to
back I had the hose and she had her bucket of water. Anytime someone
came in reach was SMOOTHERED!!!!!!!!!!! MUHAHAHAHA!!!! Very cold
though. I could see my breath and couldnt feel my feet :D IT WAS
AWESOME!!!! Don't worry I took a hot shower had a warm cup of tea and
got in my comfy pjs and new slippers :) I'm very toasty you might say, and completely satisfied that the other youth group ran home with their tail between their legs :D
Thank you all for your prayers I will try my best to keep you
updated. I'm sorry this one is soo long :( Goodnight! :D
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