It was a good week back and getting the Reading Hut ready... I brought a little bookshelf and some crates back from Cape Town and got some nice posters for the walls from my friend Marielle that really made the room look pretty. Yesterday I went to paint 2 blackboard areas on the wall. A big one and a smaller one in the kids corner. This morning I put in some plastic carpets. There has already been a whole lot of children coming by and spending some good time there. The past 2 days were really special to me, spending time and getting to know some of the kids a little better and seeing how excited they are about this place. The first day i didn't even have my camera there. I thought I was just going to fix the place up a bit and all of a sudden there were all these kids from everywhere and it turned into the unofficial first day of the Reading Hut, it was great! I am very thankful for how things have been working out so far. (Apart from last night that someone actually broke in and stole the lock that I still had to put inside the door. That's all they took so I pray they don't come back...)
Thank you to everybody who has been supporting, you have made a world of a difference to these little kids' lives and there will still be many more days and more kids to come!
I'll let you know how it continues to go, I still need to do some work. More books have to go in and I have to sort a lot of that out. That can happen on Monday...
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