New Year's eve. The earliest I've ever celebrated.
I spent the morning at Pholoso with the VBS. What an awesome experience. There were about 40 kids there who were all black and from a very impoverished part of town. None spoke english so Bonny, who speaks 11 languages, translated the bible stories and directions for us. The lesson was the creation story so kids were drawing lots of animal pictures and making several crafts. We played lots of games and sang in both english and setswana. The kids loved getting their pictures taken and had beautiful smiles.
We were told these kids lived at a lower poverty level than the children at Deelpan. They lived in villages only a 5 minute drive away from the farm we were staying on and they came to the bible school via trailer attached to the back of a car or bucky--I found it amusing that they used the same trailer to transport the kids that they used for taking the sheep to the slaughter.
The afternoon was quite relaxing with more gimp and hanging out. In the late afternoon, the winds kicked up and an enormous brown cloud was coming toward us. It was a huge sandstorm. We tried to cover everything the best we could, but dust got into everything--including my contacts. After that the rain came but it didn't affect our activities too much. It's never a problem to be off schedule and kids don't mind time to relax and hang out and have a late dinner.
We had chapel where we once again talked about what we needed to leave in 2008 and what we would be praying for in 2009. We had about an hour until midnight so we played "Andrew's game" which involved running around in the dark trying to get the other team's glowsticks into your team's base. I found that it was difficult to see people running towards you until the very last second which results in excellent collisions. When Dean and I collided, I didn't know if we would both get up. We finally rang in the new year with a drumming circle which was full of energy. It was an excellent end to 2008.
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