Finished early with teaching at the holiday camp, all
in all a good experience this week!
Came back and decided to do a little bit of washing since it was a
beautiful sunny day and there was water.
Two things that are not always present, around here, so you’ve got to
kind of take advantage of it when it is.
Glad that I did that, because right now, 8pm, there is no water again
and who knows how long it’s going to last. Well, it is the first time this week that the water’s cut
off, so can’t complain too much.
I’m thankful for my 5L bottle reserves, so I could get clean again.
While I was doing the washing, I just thought of
Buyana and all the other kids around here. Pretty much all the kids also have to do their own
washing. By hand. And very often, like last week when we
didn’t have water for almost 3 days, they still didn’t have water for about
another 2 days… Yet, you don’t
really hear them complain. It’s just a part of life.
Today was the sweetest girl, little Sezah / Capri’s
first birthday and I arrived at the party just as it was ending. But all my beloved children were still there
and I had a warm welcome and lots of hugs from Snooks, Josh, Asefika and of
course plenty cuddles from birthday baby Sezah herself. One of those days that I wished I had
my camera there, just to capture those happy little faces and make sure I’ve
got all the images to last me a lifetime of joyful memories. I guess this one I’ll just have to
carry in my heart.
This week has really been full of these kinds of
moments. Small moments that make
me feel like heaven must be really close by. I made Sarah a slideshow of pics that I’ve taken since I
came here, mostly pics of Sezah, sharing the love with all her friends, and we
watched it when the party was over.
Sarah loved it of course and furthermore it was totally priceless seeing
all the kids freak out about it.
Snooks and Asefika and even Josh and Jesse totally loved it. I think for Snooks it was like seeing a
movie with herself in it, she was quite out of her skin. And I was the contented observer filled
with enough love to last me another month. Only Layla was a bit upset that there weren’t enough pics of
her in it. I hope I get the
opportunity to make it up to her in time for her next birthday…
Mydog, Buyana and Aphiwe joined me on the walk to the
other side. We all had walking
sticks today, well except for Mydog of course. We carry the sticks for a number of reasons, firstly just
because it’s fun walking with a stick.
I myself have always rather enjoyed a bit of stick twirling along the
way. Aphiwe has gotten a rather
long stick, which he uses to practice a form of pole-jumping as we walk. Not to mention that it’s handy purely
for just being a walking stick.
Then of course protection from whatever one may need protection
from. Aphiwe has gotten me quite
aware of the fact that there are plenty of snakes around in these parts as
summer draws near… Everywhere we
go people seem to be interested in our sticks and why we carry them, hence the
thorough dissemination of reasons why we do.
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