Day two - Hard work and play

08 August 2013

Officially the first full day of Phedisang!

We all had a really exciting day as we met our leaders, and all the children.

 The day began by waking up to the ring of cellphone alarms and the ruffling of sleeping bags. The sunrise was beautiful. We then prepred a scrumptious breakfast of eggs and sausages, with Miss Sibisi.

After sorting through the multiple donations, we stacked the bus and went to our first centre, Turkey. There we unpacked the trailer and went to visit the near by school: Sekololo Primary. We visited four classrooms consisting of Grade 6 to 7 learners and there we sang two traditional songs and talked about Roedean. It was an enriching experience to interact with the children.

After a long morning, we split up into our groups and went our designated centres.

At Worcester, we had a slight difficulty with the projecter and the transparancy, but we came up with an inovative plan and tomorrow we will be starting with the world map. We also painted the banner for the Women's Day March tomorrow, played with the children, helped dish out the food and fetched water from the near by river.

At Makonyane, we had to wait for the leaders to arrive as they were walking from their respective schools to the centre. While we were waiting we played games with the children such as catchers and language games. They really enjoyed teaching us what our facial features were in siPedi. When the leaders arrived we greeted them and got started on our Women's day banner. It was a lot of fun to interact with our leaders despite the language barrier. Our leaders also taught us the Mango Groove dance. We then served Lunch to all the children and packed up.

The Butswana centre was filled with enthusiastic children that greated us with warm arms. Our group played fun games with the children, which involved us to dance and sing. We were a bit nervous but we eventually let go of our insecurities and enjoyed the time. We then began to work on our Women's Day banner with our kind-hearted leaders. Our day ended off with us learning new and difficult dances to Zahara and Mango Groove.

After a long and hot day in the sun, we came back to base camp and drank a refreshing glass of juice. Tsholo learnt to ride a bike!We then had a yoga session with Wendy, which was really relaxing. After supper we wrote this blog and ate chocolate. :)

All in all, a very groovy day!
Goodnight readers

Group 2 - Alexandra Plakas, Nomfundo Kwini and Nicola Stipinovich