Rule #25 Never sell your sister for less than 2 cows.

Lunch time at the Tlamelo Project

Me and the boys.

Well it has been a good week. We are finally settled in and comfortable with the city. We had a big dinner with some girls upstairs and hung out with them for the most part on Friday. We spent Saturday at Paul's roommate Tshube's track meet. It was an international meet so many countries from the southern part of Africa were there. Let me tell you, these people can run, and many of them do it without shoes on. He got 2nd in the 4x100 relay and 3rd in the 100. It was a lot of fun watching him. It was just a nice day. The crowd was into what was going on, and we watched the sun set over the mountain/hills in the background as the day went on. It was beautiful. Sunday we made it to church in Naledi and I'm pretty sure we were at church for 3 hours. But it was still a good time.

I talked to my mom a little bit about church here so I thought I would write it here as well. The people have such passion for God. You can tell by their singing and dancing, because it would easily move you to tears. They are the kind of church services that the women wept during the prayers. I was talking to someone about people and church here and they said that sometimes when people have nothing left that's when they turn to God and the church because that is the only thing to get them through the day which is what makes them so passionate. It is definitely different because back home people obviously don't go to church just out of thanks because they physically made it through the week.

We have been keeping busy working at the school. The Canadians that have been working there for weeks left yesterday so now we are picking up and continuing with the work that they started, so that has been nice. Nicole has been working on the computers while the rest of us have been in and out of classrooms and the daycare helping out. Man I have never appreciated what copiers can do until now (They have one but it doesn't work) I have to make work sheets for the 5 year olds written by hand so they can trace their name every day. There are 39 of them so it takes quite a while. ha.

Oh I also did some laundry today...in the sink and in the shower. So I think that is just going to turn out great. Who needs washing machines, really :) I was harassed on the combi today by a drunk man with no teeth and who was carrying a purse. Everyone else on the combi was laughing hysterically at what he was saying to me. It probably would have been a lot funnier if I had any idea what he was saying. Paul is asked somewhat regularly which one of us is his girlfriend (because he is the only guy) he simply replies that 2 he are not dating are his sisters. That is kind of how the "Never sell your sister for less than 2 cows" came about. Because he jokes that if we act up he'll sell us to the next people that say something.

I suppose that is enough nonsense for now....