So I was actually wrong about the showers, there is a hot water tap that I didn’t know about at the top of the tap, so I was showering in the cold for a little bit, but I don’t mind, it builds character!
This weekend we finished up the Family Festival at the church, it was fun. I made friends with theses two little girls over the 3 days, they were my dancing partners. The one was so cute she has the biggest smile, and she stood out to me because she was very giving and sharing. I also gave away my sandals to a girl who didn’t have any, and then found out that we were going to walk home. But don’t worry, I borrowed guy’s shoes, and he walked in his socks. Check out some of the pictures on my facebook.
Our first lecture of the week was very good, a guy talked to us who is from the Congo, and he had a very very powerful testimony. I won’t repeat it all, but he talked to us about how he was a child soldier and how he made his way on foot from the Congo all the way to South Africa. (It’s a very long way, just look at a map) The things that he saw and went through are amazing, and it was very touching to personally hear from someone who experienced the things he has. And to see where he is now and how he has been changed by God is very inspiring.
I am finding my hidden talent in playing guitar. Since we are all together on this base it is very hard to find alone time – much needed alone time. And since I am a girl I can’t go out alone, so I go find a place to sit down and play guitar by myself and make up a song or whatever, since I do no have a piano, and I really miss my piano, but guitar is working for me for the time being. J It’s amazing how music can change around a mood in a second.
Today (wed) we had a really good teaching about worship and different kinds of worship, and I just want to share some things…
People are created to worship, and everyone worships something or someone, even if you don’t know it
Don’t worship worldly things – what you worship you become like
Worship is NOT all about music...do not start worshipping the instruments.
Worship comes in different forms – if you start worshipping a form you get stuck
Real worship cannot be explained, it is experienced
Worship is life
Some pointers that I thought were good.
Today we also did a kidzone thing, and there were a lot of kids! We have a team from Germany here doing some outreach for a week or so, and so they did some songs and stuff. It was so brutal walking around the community gathering kids…it was SO hot out it felt like we were walking forever. Then it was so hot in the building as well. But fun overall, I met the same girl from the church that I met on the weekend, so that was so nice! We had the evening off today, so I played some volleyball before dinner and beach after dinner, so that was fun.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
So I was actually wrong about the showers, there is a hot water tap that I didn’t know about at the top of the tap, so I was showering in the cold for a little bit, but I don’t mind, it builds character!
This weekend we finished up the Family Festival at the church, it was fun. I made friends with theses two little girls over the 3 days, they were my dancing partners. The one was so cute she has the biggest smile, and she stood out to me because she was very giving and sharing. I also gave away my sandals to a girl who didn’t have any, and then found out that we were going to walk home. But don’t worry, I borrowed guy’s shoes, and he walked in his socks. Check out some of the pictures on my facebook.
Our first lecture of the week was very good, a guy talked to us who is from the Congo, and he had a very very powerful testimony. I won’t repeat it all, but he talked to us about how he was a child soldier and how he made his way on foot from the Congo all the way to South Africa. (It’s a very long way, just look at a map) The things that he saw and went through are amazing, and it was very touching to personally hear from someone who experienced the things he has. And to see where he is now and how he has been changed by God is very inspiring.
I am finding my hidden talent in playing guitar. Since we are all together on this base it is very hard to find alone time – much needed alone time. And since I am a girl I can’t go out alone, so I go find a place to sit down and play guitar by myself and make up a song or whatever, since I do no have a piano, and I really miss my piano, but guitar is working for me for the time being. J It’s amazing how music can change around a mood in a second.
Today (wed and thurs) we had a really good teaching about worship and different kinds of worship, difference between worship and praise and stuff and I just want to share some things…
People are created to worship, and everyone worships something or someone, even if you don’t know it
Don’t worship worldly things – what you worship you become like
Worship is NOT all about music...do not start worshipping the instruments.
Worship comes in different forms – if you start worshipping a form you get stuck
Real worship cannot be explained, it is experienced
Worship is life
Some pointers that I thought were good.
Today we also did a kidzone thing, and there were a lot of kids! We have a team from Germany here doing some outreach for a week or so, and so they did some songs and stuff. It was so brutal walking around the community gathering kids…it was SO hot out it felt like we were walking forever. Then it was so hot in the building as well. But fun overall, I met the same girl from the church that I met on the weekend, so that was so nice! We had the evening off today, so I played some volleyball before dinner and beach after dinner, so that was fun.
i am getting to know the people on my team more and more each day, and it is really nice. :)
Enjoy the cold. Sorry, I can't help but say that. :P
This weekend we finished up the Family Festival at the church, it was fun. I made friends with theses two little girls over the 3 days, they were my dancing partners. The one was so cute she has the biggest smile, and she stood out to me because she was very giving and sharing. I also gave away my sandals to a girl who didn’t have any, and then found out that we were going to walk home. But don’t worry, I borrowed guy’s shoes, and he walked in his socks. Check out some of the pictures on my facebook.
Our first lecture of the week was very good, a guy talked to us who is from the Congo, and he had a very very powerful testimony. I won’t repeat it all, but he talked to us about how he was a child soldier and how he made his way on foot from the Congo all the way to South Africa. (It’s a very long way, just look at a map) The things that he saw and went through are amazing, and it was very touching to personally hear from someone who experienced the things he has. And to see where he is now and how he has been changed by God is very inspiring.
I am finding my hidden talent in playing guitar. Since we are all together on this base it is very hard to find alone time – much needed alone time. And since I am a girl I can’t go out alone, so I go find a place to sit down and play guitar by myself and make up a song or whatever, since I do no have a piano, and I really miss my piano, but guitar is working for me for the time being. J It’s amazing how music can change around a mood in a second.
Today (wed and thurs) we had a really good teaching about worship and different kinds of worship, difference between worship and praise and stuff and I just want to share some things…
People are created to worship, and everyone worships something or someone, even if you don’t know it
Don’t worship worldly things – what you worship you become like
Worship is NOT all about music...do not start worshipping the instruments.
Worship comes in different forms – if you start worshipping a form you get stuck
Real worship cannot be explained, it is experienced
Worship is life
Some pointers that I thought were good.
Today we also did a kidzone thing, and there were a lot of kids! We have a team from Germany here doing some outreach for a week or so, and so they did some songs and stuff. It was so brutal walking around the community gathering kids…it was SO hot out it felt like we were walking forever. Then it was so hot in the building as well. But fun overall, I met the same girl from the church that I met on the weekend, so that was so nice! We had the evening off today, so I played some volleyball before dinner and beach after dinner, so that was fun.
i am getting to know the people on my team more and more each day, and it is really nice. :)
Enjoy the cold. Sorry, I can't help but say that. :P
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Week One -The 1st full week
HOT week…it’s hot!! South African Summer. I am very glad that we are near the ocean, so we get an ocean breeze most of the time. I look at myself today, and I have defiantly put on some weight. We really do eat good here…
And the crickets here are so nice, they chirp so loud it is so beautiful to listen to at night.
So this is what an average day here would look like here on the Jeffreys Bay YWAM Base:
Get up at 5:55AM. Go for a run.
Breakfast at 6:30-7AM.
First Lecture starts at 8:30
We have a few stretching and ‘processing’ breaks,
Then lunch at 1:00PM.
Then we have work duties which ranges from working in the garden or maintenance, cleaning toilets, prepping for lunch or dinner or clean up, whatever. I have maintenance, so I start at 2PM till about 330 or 4.
Dinner at 5:30.
For this week we had evenings off but soon we are going to have to start practicing dramas, or doing homework, or outreach prep which we do not know what that is yet.
So then its lights out at 10:30PM, but I have been going to bed as early as I can. :P
Today (the 22nd) we were all eating in the eating area and some kids were looking over the edge of the wall, just watching. I felt so sad, my heart just was breaking for them, I felt bad that I had food and he didn’t, I hate that feeling. The one kid I recognize; he is around the base often, and he wears the same clothes everyday that I have seen him. He looks about 6 or 7, he keeps a very stern and angry face, and I have never seen him smile. The kids that hang around here are from the poor area of town, because we are located pretty much in the middle, but nearer the poor area. I don’t know if I explained before about the town here; it is split poor and rich – the poor area the blacks, and the rich area mostly whites. We are located near the poor area with close access to town; the town kind of separates the poor and rich areas. Anyways, the kids that live in this poor area come from usually broken families, and it’s just so sad because they are so rough with eachother. They also usually get beaten and neglected, so we all love to hug them.
We do this KIDZONE thing once a week where we go out as a team and play the guitar as we walk all over the community picking up kids who will follow us to come to this building and we sing songs and play games and then we memorize a memory verse. They are aged from as young as 2 to 13 I’d say. It’s really fun because its different kids everytime, and they love to play with us, and they are all so cute.
On Thursday a group of us went to a community church where they speak Afrikaans, but this time they spoke mostly in English so that was nice. I’m not sure if it was because we were there or what, but it was such a fun church, it was a black Pentecostal church; so we sing so loud and sway and dance and the preacher was just so fun to listen to.
Friday we did another kind of kid thing, there was adult worship or meeting thing at a church, and we played with the kids. We did a drama for them about the Walls of Jericho coming down, and we sang songs. The kids are just so fun, they run up and hug you, hang off you and they fight to hold your hand. I love to dance with the girls, and they love it too, just grab their hand and start dancing, it’s so fun. They also love to play with my hair, and one girl was putting my hair on her head to see what it would look like, and when I looked at her she was embarrassed, it was so cute! They are precious.
Romans 12:2:
No longer conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
And the crickets here are so nice, they chirp so loud it is so beautiful to listen to at night.
So this is what an average day here would look like here on the Jeffreys Bay YWAM Base:
Get up at 5:55AM. Go for a run.
Breakfast at 6:30-7AM.
First Lecture starts at 8:30
We have a few stretching and ‘processing’ breaks,
Then lunch at 1:00PM.
Then we have work duties which ranges from working in the garden or maintenance, cleaning toilets, prepping for lunch or dinner or clean up, whatever. I have maintenance, so I start at 2PM till about 330 or 4.
Dinner at 5:30.
For this week we had evenings off but soon we are going to have to start practicing dramas, or doing homework, or outreach prep which we do not know what that is yet.
So then its lights out at 10:30PM, but I have been going to bed as early as I can. :P
Today (the 22nd) we were all eating in the eating area and some kids were looking over the edge of the wall, just watching. I felt so sad, my heart just was breaking for them, I felt bad that I had food and he didn’t, I hate that feeling. The one kid I recognize; he is around the base often, and he wears the same clothes everyday that I have seen him. He looks about 6 or 7, he keeps a very stern and angry face, and I have never seen him smile. The kids that hang around here are from the poor area of town, because we are located pretty much in the middle, but nearer the poor area. I don’t know if I explained before about the town here; it is split poor and rich – the poor area the blacks, and the rich area mostly whites. We are located near the poor area with close access to town; the town kind of separates the poor and rich areas. Anyways, the kids that live in this poor area come from usually broken families, and it’s just so sad because they are so rough with eachother. They also usually get beaten and neglected, so we all love to hug them.
We do this KIDZONE thing once a week where we go out as a team and play the guitar as we walk all over the community picking up kids who will follow us to come to this building and we sing songs and play games and then we memorize a memory verse. They are aged from as young as 2 to 13 I’d say. It’s really fun because its different kids everytime, and they love to play with us, and they are all so cute.
On Thursday a group of us went to a community church where they speak Afrikaans, but this time they spoke mostly in English so that was nice. I’m not sure if it was because we were there or what, but it was such a fun church, it was a black Pentecostal church; so we sing so loud and sway and dance and the preacher was just so fun to listen to.
Friday we did another kind of kid thing, there was adult worship or meeting thing at a church, and we played with the kids. We did a drama for them about the Walls of Jericho coming down, and we sang songs. The kids are just so fun, they run up and hug you, hang off you and they fight to hold your hand. I love to dance with the girls, and they love it too, just grab their hand and start dancing, it’s so fun. They also love to play with my hair, and one girl was putting my hair on her head to see what it would look like, and when I looked at her she was embarrassed, it was so cute! They are precious.
Romans 12:2:
No longer conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Weekend
This weekend was HOT.
Saterday we went to the beach in the morning, walked at least 25 minutes along the beach in the sand to this place where we could BBQ, then decided not too, and bought hot ready-made chicken and bread and stuff instead. It was a long walk; me and Emily (the other Canadian) got pretty burnt. I have the worst shorts tan EVER! I could walk around naked and it would still look like I am wearing shorts. White shorts. Even my lips are sunburnt which has never happened to me before. Luckily on the way back we walked on the road and someone the staff member knew picked us up and we rode in the back of his truck back to the base. Then I slept the rest of the day.
On Sunday me and Emily, Sabina (from Germany) and two girls from SA went with Jonta (who is on staff here and leads worship at a church in the community) walked to his church which is located deeper into the poor community. It was a pretty nice sized building, but a kind of small congregation. Anyways, Emily and Sabina and I were the only whites, but I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. It was a great worship time, and a very intense sermon. The preacher was so passionate that sometimes I thought he was going to pick me up and throw me, haha. It was about in 2Kings where the man with leaprosy was told to wash in the Jordan river 7 times before he would be healed, and how sometimes we have to wait that long before something happens, we can just expect healing or answers after asking 2 or 4 times. It was a very powerful church.
Afterwards the preacher came to talk to us white people and he said, ``You want to know how to make a difference, well I tell you that just by walking in our streets and worshipping in our churches, that makes a difference more than you could ever ever know.``
And he told a story how when he was a kid and a white man touched his head, or smiled at him, he would run to his friends and say ``guess what, a white man was nice to me!`` And his friends would say, ohh no way, and obviously that was way back in apartheid days, but still it is a big issue as people are getting out of it. Another story he told was when him and a few people from a YWAM team went into a house of a sick man, and the man said, `now I can die in peace because white people have entered my house.` Now that may sound a little extreme, but I took it to mean he can die in peace because black and white have some together in his house.
Anyways, what he was saying is that our presence in their community and church really means a lot, more than we know, and that was really cool to hear…it made me sad actually, but also happy that even if unknown to me, I am making a difference. ! J
Saterday we went to the beach in the morning, walked at least 25 minutes along the beach in the sand to this place where we could BBQ, then decided not too, and bought hot ready-made chicken and bread and stuff instead. It was a long walk; me and Emily (the other Canadian) got pretty burnt. I have the worst shorts tan EVER! I could walk around naked and it would still look like I am wearing shorts. White shorts. Even my lips are sunburnt which has never happened to me before. Luckily on the way back we walked on the road and someone the staff member knew picked us up and we rode in the back of his truck back to the base. Then I slept the rest of the day.
On Sunday me and Emily, Sabina (from Germany) and two girls from SA went with Jonta (who is on staff here and leads worship at a church in the community) walked to his church which is located deeper into the poor community. It was a pretty nice sized building, but a kind of small congregation. Anyways, Emily and Sabina and I were the only whites, but I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. It was a great worship time, and a very intense sermon. The preacher was so passionate that sometimes I thought he was going to pick me up and throw me, haha. It was about in 2Kings where the man with leaprosy was told to wash in the Jordan river 7 times before he would be healed, and how sometimes we have to wait that long before something happens, we can just expect healing or answers after asking 2 or 4 times. It was a very powerful church.
Afterwards the preacher came to talk to us white people and he said, ``You want to know how to make a difference, well I tell you that just by walking in our streets and worshipping in our churches, that makes a difference more than you could ever ever know.``
And he told a story how when he was a kid and a white man touched his head, or smiled at him, he would run to his friends and say ``guess what, a white man was nice to me!`` And his friends would say, ohh no way, and obviously that was way back in apartheid days, but still it is a big issue as people are getting out of it. Another story he told was when him and a few people from a YWAM team went into a house of a sick man, and the man said, `now I can die in peace because white people have entered my house.` Now that may sound a little extreme, but I took it to mean he can die in peace because black and white have some together in his house.
Anyways, what he was saying is that our presence in their community and church really means a lot, more than we know, and that was really cool to hear…it made me sad actually, but also happy that even if unknown to me, I am making a difference. ! J
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Getting Started
Heyy,
So I washed my own clothes a few days ago, and it was actually hard, I was working up a sweat. We fill a big basin/bucket thing with water and laundry soap and then squeeze and wash and rub and stuff and I felt like I was ruining my clothes but they are okay haha, we then hang them on the line and hope the kids don’t take them. Naw, it’s actually quite safe, but the kids like to run around here and try to get into the dorms and things. We’ve also had a few incidences with older guys but nothing major.
On the 18th we did this huge group prayer thing with all the DTS groups from the Sates and Hawaii and us, and we prayed for 4 African countries; Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. It was really good, prayer in places like here and Guatemala are really loud and intense and anyways, we still don’t know where our outreach phase is going to be, but we are hoping to go to one of these countries. Personally for me, I would rather not Kenya because it is close to South Africa and I want to go to the North!!! It’ll be great though. Probably will not have internet, but we will see. I’ll keep in touch while I still can :P
So this first weeks topic has been about “Hearing the Voice of God.”
Wow.
Well now THAT is something worth learning!
I was feeling really down, like, man, I can’t hear the voice of God, who am I!? And after one of my teammates told a story about how she heard Him, and another teammate told a story about when she was little, and we are reading a book called ‘Is that you God?’ and it’s a true story about hearing the voice of God essentially, and so I was kind of feeling left out!
I have a story to tell, this morning (the 18th) during this prayer thing, this lady from the other team asked to pray for me, and she said, “now stop me if I’m wrong but I get the feeling that you feel distant, and feel like you are not good enough [to be used]” And it was amazing because that it how I felt, and it was just really great, you know…? I’m feeling in high spirits now.
Also in this afternoon we all went on a kind of, protest parade thing. The whole big group of us, DTS’s and staff walked around the poor area of the community holding a sign that read ‘Every War Has Its End.’ The night before there was a shop nearby robbed, and someone was shot as well. We walked and sang and played guitar and prayed and people looked at us and it was really neat to be a part of.
Then we walked to the beach and it was gorgeous, the sun was setting and the beach was almost empty, it was so nice!! We collected shells and we saw some dolphins, they weren’t all that close, but close enough that we could tell they were dolphins, it was really cool.
So now it’s the weekend!! We get weekends off so were are going to just hang out, catch up on sleep and hit the beach.
So I washed my own clothes a few days ago, and it was actually hard, I was working up a sweat. We fill a big basin/bucket thing with water and laundry soap and then squeeze and wash and rub and stuff and I felt like I was ruining my clothes but they are okay haha, we then hang them on the line and hope the kids don’t take them. Naw, it’s actually quite safe, but the kids like to run around here and try to get into the dorms and things. We’ve also had a few incidences with older guys but nothing major.
On the 18th we did this huge group prayer thing with all the DTS groups from the Sates and Hawaii and us, and we prayed for 4 African countries; Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. It was really good, prayer in places like here and Guatemala are really loud and intense and anyways, we still don’t know where our outreach phase is going to be, but we are hoping to go to one of these countries. Personally for me, I would rather not Kenya because it is close to South Africa and I want to go to the North!!! It’ll be great though. Probably will not have internet, but we will see. I’ll keep in touch while I still can :P
So this first weeks topic has been about “Hearing the Voice of God.”
Wow.
Well now THAT is something worth learning!
I was feeling really down, like, man, I can’t hear the voice of God, who am I!? And after one of my teammates told a story about how she heard Him, and another teammate told a story about when she was little, and we are reading a book called ‘Is that you God?’ and it’s a true story about hearing the voice of God essentially, and so I was kind of feeling left out!
I have a story to tell, this morning (the 18th) during this prayer thing, this lady from the other team asked to pray for me, and she said, “now stop me if I’m wrong but I get the feeling that you feel distant, and feel like you are not good enough [to be used]” And it was amazing because that it how I felt, and it was just really great, you know…? I’m feeling in high spirits now.
Also in this afternoon we all went on a kind of, protest parade thing. The whole big group of us, DTS’s and staff walked around the poor area of the community holding a sign that read ‘Every War Has Its End.’ The night before there was a shop nearby robbed, and someone was shot as well. We walked and sang and played guitar and prayed and people looked at us and it was really neat to be a part of.
Then we walked to the beach and it was gorgeous, the sun was setting and the beach was almost empty, it was so nice!! We collected shells and we saw some dolphins, they weren’t all that close, but close enough that we could tell they were dolphins, it was really cool.
So now it’s the weekend!! We get weekends off so were are going to just hang out, catch up on sleep and hit the beach.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Eating Sand in the Dark
Hello!
We are 10 hours ahead here, so when your day is ending, mine is beginning, how neat is that.
On Sunday we had our kickoff to start the DTS, and it was very exciting! We sang, and when you sing here, it’s always with the drumbeat and clap your hands very loud and fast, it is very upbeat and fun. They introduced everyone and then we had cake and drinks. In this DTS there are 11 girls and 2 boys right now, and there are two more boys coming form Nigeria in a few days. I played with the kids for a bit during the day…there is a group of about 10 of them that like to hang around the base here, and 2 of the girls that are about maybe 10 in age are twins, and they are so cute. A little boy probably about 2 or 3 years old was trying on all the older kids shoes and walking around, he was adorable. Anyways, the kids crawl all over you, and jump on your back, its fun for a little bit. We were playing some game they made up, and the next thing I know, they are all jumping, and hanging on to me, and this little boy is crawling between my legs, and I am in a skirt here, so I was like OKAY NO, time to stop haha. But it was quite fun.
The showers are very cold. We have 4 showers in our dorm, but only 2 have shower curtains, I think that is because we had to move into the boys dorm because it was bigger. They’re cold enough that I can’t have my whole body under it at once, and my head freezes after a while, but its fun.
So the first few days have just been getting to know eachother, introductions and such, and it has been really nice, I can tell that this is going to be an amazing time.
The weather has been not sunny and very very windy lately. The wind can get very strong. This morning it was nice and sunny so some of us went to the beach after our lecture, but it got windy, that’s why I call this blog ‘eating sand.’ Haha…and some of the people from the DTS outreach team from Hawaii were trying to learn how to surf, and it was funny to watch, it looked quite frustrating. I notice that I am using the words ‘nice’ and ‘quite’ a lot…I picked that up form the South Africans.
The power is out right now, so we are all sitting in the dark, and some girls are watching a movie on their laptop. I don’t have internet connection; I write on word and then paste it later at the internet café. It also smelts like smoke, like fire smoke…we think that someone’s house is burning down. A house that we would call a shed or a shack, and it makes me sad to think someone’s home is burning down. In this town there is the touristy area, and the rich residential area, and the poor residential area. We are located more near the poor area, within walking distance to the beach, and also about a five minute walk to the shops.
Anyways, I have an assignment to do for tomorrow, so I will write later.
Have fun in the snow.
We are 10 hours ahead here, so when your day is ending, mine is beginning, how neat is that.
On Sunday we had our kickoff to start the DTS, and it was very exciting! We sang, and when you sing here, it’s always with the drumbeat and clap your hands very loud and fast, it is very upbeat and fun. They introduced everyone and then we had cake and drinks. In this DTS there are 11 girls and 2 boys right now, and there are two more boys coming form Nigeria in a few days. I played with the kids for a bit during the day…there is a group of about 10 of them that like to hang around the base here, and 2 of the girls that are about maybe 10 in age are twins, and they are so cute. A little boy probably about 2 or 3 years old was trying on all the older kids shoes and walking around, he was adorable. Anyways, the kids crawl all over you, and jump on your back, its fun for a little bit. We were playing some game they made up, and the next thing I know, they are all jumping, and hanging on to me, and this little boy is crawling between my legs, and I am in a skirt here, so I was like OKAY NO, time to stop haha. But it was quite fun.
The showers are very cold. We have 4 showers in our dorm, but only 2 have shower curtains, I think that is because we had to move into the boys dorm because it was bigger. They’re cold enough that I can’t have my whole body under it at once, and my head freezes after a while, but its fun.
So the first few days have just been getting to know eachother, introductions and such, and it has been really nice, I can tell that this is going to be an amazing time.
The weather has been not sunny and very very windy lately. The wind can get very strong. This morning it was nice and sunny so some of us went to the beach after our lecture, but it got windy, that’s why I call this blog ‘eating sand.’ Haha…and some of the people from the DTS outreach team from Hawaii were trying to learn how to surf, and it was funny to watch, it looked quite frustrating. I notice that I am using the words ‘nice’ and ‘quite’ a lot…I picked that up form the South Africans.
The power is out right now, so we are all sitting in the dark, and some girls are watching a movie on their laptop. I don’t have internet connection; I write on word and then paste it later at the internet café. It also smelts like smoke, like fire smoke…we think that someone’s house is burning down. A house that we would call a shed or a shack, and it makes me sad to think someone’s home is burning down. In this town there is the touristy area, and the rich residential area, and the poor residential area. We are located more near the poor area, within walking distance to the beach, and also about a five minute walk to the shops.
Anyways, I have an assignment to do for tomorrow, so I will write later.
Have fun in the snow.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Another Super Day
helloo
Yesterday 3 more team members arrived, Myra and kate from northern south africa, emily from abbosford BC, and tim from australia, and......another from germany. So taht is more then 3, guses i can't count, and i can't spell or use a keyboard either.
so we are all moved into our dorms, they are acctally very nice, 5 girls to a room, 2-high bunk beds, and it is quite large and very nice. :) it was so exciting yesterday to meet everyone, and we are all getting along great, it feels like we've known eachother for a long time, not just a day or so.
we went to church this morrning becuase it is sunday, and it was very nice, it was an english service, and i quite enjoyed it. I can hear myself pick up lingo from other countries, i say 'quite' and 'lovely' and 'fabulous'. haha.
UMM what else....the actual school dts will start tomorrow, and so we are all enjoying our time relaxing while we still can.
yesterday me and 2 of the girls, myra and kate, went shopping and i bought a shirt...the shops are so cool....everyone wears the billibong here, and the outlets are quite nice. oh yes, and i had some ice cream yesterday, something that i was hoping they would have here. :p
overall, everything is going super....can't wait to see what is going to happen once we get started.
My love,
tierney
Yesterday 3 more team members arrived, Myra and kate from northern south africa, emily from abbosford BC, and tim from australia, and......another from germany. So taht is more then 3, guses i can't count, and i can't spell or use a keyboard either.
so we are all moved into our dorms, they are acctally very nice, 5 girls to a room, 2-high bunk beds, and it is quite large and very nice. :) it was so exciting yesterday to meet everyone, and we are all getting along great, it feels like we've known eachother for a long time, not just a day or so.
we went to church this morrning becuase it is sunday, and it was very nice, it was an english service, and i quite enjoyed it. I can hear myself pick up lingo from other countries, i say 'quite' and 'lovely' and 'fabulous'. haha.
UMM what else....the actual school dts will start tomorrow, and so we are all enjoying our time relaxing while we still can.
yesterday me and 2 of the girls, myra and kate, went shopping and i bought a shirt...the shops are so cool....everyone wears the billibong here, and the outlets are quite nice. oh yes, and i had some ice cream yesterday, something that i was hoping they would have here. :p
overall, everything is going super....can't wait to see what is going to happen once we get started.
My love,
tierney
Friday, January 11, 2008
JEFREEYS BAY
WOW.
Well it is amazing here.
Greetings from The Canadian.
The plane rides were so long and tiring but I managed around the airports fairly well. My luggage was soo heavy and i had to drag it along, and my wrists and arms hurt haha, but it was totally worth it, as soon as i landed in Port Elizebeth i had a smile on my face.
When i arrived i met 2 of my team members - Sun Young and Sea hea, from South Korea, they are so nice, and funny and fun to talk to.
It is gorgeous here....warm - I am getting a nice tan, but it does get quite windy in the afternoons/evenings.
The staff here at the base are so nice ,there is always laughter and smiles and they are easy to get along with. They are mostly black, and speak good english, so that is good.
The last few days me and 'the Koreans' have just been hangin around, we go to the beach for a bit, eat, have an afternoon nap..it is very layed back as we wait for the other team members to get here, and the school part will start on monday.
The beach is SO NICE! HUGE waves and surfers.....I would love to spend more time at the beach, but i can't so much becuase I can't go alone because it is not safe. We were told where we can and cannot go in the town and on the beach, however is it safer then I was excpeting.
The converters i brought are wrong, and do not fit into the electical outets here, so i am looking for one here.....not sure if i'll find one so i am not sure how often i will be able to go on the internet, however i will try to update often....
In conclusion, i love it here.
:)
Well it is amazing here.
Greetings from The Canadian.
The plane rides were so long and tiring but I managed around the airports fairly well. My luggage was soo heavy and i had to drag it along, and my wrists and arms hurt haha, but it was totally worth it, as soon as i landed in Port Elizebeth i had a smile on my face.
When i arrived i met 2 of my team members - Sun Young and Sea hea, from South Korea, they are so nice, and funny and fun to talk to.
It is gorgeous here....warm - I am getting a nice tan, but it does get quite windy in the afternoons/evenings.
The staff here at the base are so nice ,there is always laughter and smiles and they are easy to get along with. They are mostly black, and speak good english, so that is good.
The last few days me and 'the Koreans' have just been hangin around, we go to the beach for a bit, eat, have an afternoon nap..it is very layed back as we wait for the other team members to get here, and the school part will start on monday.
The beach is SO NICE! HUGE waves and surfers.....I would love to spend more time at the beach, but i can't so much becuase I can't go alone because it is not safe. We were told where we can and cannot go in the town and on the beach, however is it safer then I was excpeting.
The converters i brought are wrong, and do not fit into the electical outets here, so i am looking for one here.....not sure if i'll find one so i am not sure how often i will be able to go on the internet, however i will try to update often....
In conclusion, i love it here.
:)
Saturday, January 5, 2008
One more day in wintery Canada
So I have one more full day in Canada, and I am very excited. :)
I left part of my family in 100 mile house today and started crying, I am going to miss them.
Got my visa papers on friday, so I am all set to go, packed and ready to fly out of Kamloops mon afternoon.
I am so extremely excited to get on that plane in vancouver, that even though the time up to this point flew by, now its going too slowly!
So I really don't have anything interesting to say yet.
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I left part of my family in 100 mile house today and started crying, I am going to miss them.
Got my visa papers on friday, so I am all set to go, packed and ready to fly out of Kamloops mon afternoon.
I am so extremely excited to get on that plane in vancouver, that even though the time up to this point flew by, now its going too slowly!
So I really don't have anything interesting to say yet.
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