School Photos Swazi Style (With Photos!!)
The weeks just keep on getting busier and busier here!
Recently we have been helping Kerry (the lady who has been running Bethany NCP over the last couple of years) a lot with putting together uniforms for those children who have been sponsored to go to the school this year. And yes, we haven’t got our timings all mixed up, it is March!! However in Africa things tend o take a little longer than planned as finally after nearly 2 months of delay we had the money to go to Manzini with Kerry and buy shoes, socks, shirts, trousers and all the other essential items for full uniforms for all 26 children. We then had to sort out the uniforms (some of which had gone missing between ordering at the shop and getting them out the next day!) and put them all together in their new bags. It took almost a week to obtain all the uniforms and sort them all out but by last Wednesday we were ready to present them to the children. Their family members gathered to collect the uniforms and they all have promised to do 20 days work for Bethany NCP in return for the sponsorship of their children.
Last Tuesday we had four extra volunteers come with us to Bethany so we took this as an opportunity to have a craft day, linking in with our current topic of Home/Farm Animals. We asked the volunteers to help the children colour in sheets we had prepared of farmyard animals whilst Sarah and I made a backdrop using their handprints in blue and green paint for the sky and grass! It was an extremely successful day as you can see from the photos and we have been able to use it as a learning resource over the last week too!
Happy St Patrick’s Day to you all for last Wednesday 17th! We celebrated in style with face paints, t-shirts, hats, flags and a couple of drinks at Malandela’s bar with all the volunteers and many locals. After (A LOT OF) Irish dancing all night we celebrated one of the volunteers, Alex’s birthday on the 18th. We went to House on Fire again on Friday night for a good evening before getting up early on Saturday to go to Nelspruit. Nelspruit, South Africa is probably our nearest South African city and is our nearest cinema here in Swaziland. Yes, in the whole of Swaziland we have no cinema! so in order to see Tim Burton’s new “Alice in Wonderland” film we had to take a 5 hour journey by Khombi across 200km of Southern Africa!
A very busy week but very fun and very rewarding!
This week we have taken school photos of all the children and a class photo which we are going to try to give to all the children in the class. Believe me we felt really proud when they lined up when we told them to for the photo and even managed to stand on their chairs and listen to us. Here are some photos of Bethany and our children for you to see. Hope you love them as much as we do!
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