Today was a great day.
First of all, I had my first Zulu test tonight and I got a 75% on it! I honestly thought I did better, but I’m pretty satisfied with that grade. To know ¾ of the vocabulary that’s been thrown at me this past week is pretty good, in my opinion. :) So that’s good news!
And then also, today we visited two of the service sites we’ll be working at. What they do is, during the month of March, we spend our days split up into teams and go to 5 different service sites throughout PMB and the surrounding areas. Today, we visited two and next Tuesday, we’ll visit the other three and then we tell the staff our top 2 choices, and they put us into groups.
The two we went to today were amazing. The first was a preschool for kids ages 2-6, called Bonginkosi. The second we walked up, I was in love. These kids were just all so beautiful and precious. We got to spend about 15 minutes talking and playing with them. (Side note: it was during this time that I became really thankful that I am taking Zulu, because I could use the 75% of words I knew to communicate with these kids, which made it that much more wonderful). I high fived a bunch of them, and then spent a few minutes being chased by a group of kids playing “Dogs.” And then took turns swinging them around in the air and tickling them. It was absolute heaven :) As we were leaving, I literally got about 30 hugs from the kids and they all lined up on the fence and waved goodbye to us as our bus pulled away. They completely stole my heart.
The second place we went to is called Project Gateway, and it’s a lot of different ministries all wrapped into one. If I get put here, I would spend my morning working with the school they have, which ranges from kindergarten to 7th grade, and then my afternoons would be spent at a place (one of their establishments) called Esther House, which is essentially a battered women’s shelter. And then on Wednesdays, we would go into a township and do a Food Share type program. This one sounds incredible to me, too. I love how many different groups of people I would be able to work with and how many stories I would get to hear. I was telling Katie today that I feel like God gives me a heart for certain places (such as San Francisco or South Africa) more so than people. I mean, once I get to those places, He brings me to certain people…but for example, how some people really have a heart for children or abused women, I feel like He gives me a heart for places and then opens my heart to everyone in that place. And I think working at Project Gateway would be a really neat way to establish relationships with all kinds of different people in this area.
Anyways, long story short, I have no idea which to choose. And I still haven’t even seen 3 of them yet. :) I feel fully confident though that God will put me wherever I need to be. So that’s exciting!!
And, I wanted to apologize for my lack of pictures on here! My camera is still freaking out. It only works for like, an hour at a time and then dies again. It’s incredibly frustrating and the reason why there are no pictures. But I will load some as soon as I can! Thanks for your patience!
With love from South Africa,
Alex
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