Hey people, just wanted to let you all know I´m having a great time away on holiday. It´s so nice to have some time off and not to be rushing around like a mad lady in Gabs, and how nice not to have to know what the time is!!
It´s been great fun so far - very girlie road trip with Rachel aka Ray, Rachel aka Hash and Beth aka Betchie. Lots of driving but we´ve been to some beautiful places - the mountains and the Golden Gate near Clarens in SA, we saw crocs and hippo at St Lucia, lots of animals on our drive through a game park on our way to Swaziland. After one night in Swaziland we´re now staying at a backpackers in Maputo, Mozambique. Tomoro we move on to Tofo Beach, apparently one of the best surfing spots in Moz so I´m hoping to maybe get a couple of lessons.
Well I'm at the end of my internet time now so going to make a move. Ciao!
Friday, 29 June 2007
Friday, 22 June 2007
Holiday : )
I thought I'd better type a quick update as I'm going away on holiday for two weeks starting tomoro, so unless I write something now you won't be hearing from me for ages! I'm so looking forward to going away....it's been a hectic couple of weeks as I've had a couple of extra people staying at the house as well as the normal work going on. It's been fun but hard work! I'm feeling like I really need a break so getting away for a while will be nice. I'm driving down to South Africa tomoro to meet up with some friends I know through Kings, Rach, Rach and Beth and then we're going on a road trip around South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. We'll be doing a bit of camping and a bit of hostelling, some game parks and some beaches so it should be great fun. I'm looking forward to catching up with all the girls again too : )
There have been some fun things over the last couple of months as well as work - there was a 1000km desert race with rally drivers from all over Southern Africa competing on both cars and bikes. It was a really big event here and Gabs was quite deserted as people drove all over the countryside out of town to catch a glimpse of the racers. There were designated places you could go and watch the cars pass and although it was fun I must admit to only staying long enough to see about 10 cars go past, after which I figured they would all be pretty much the same!! It was exciting though as they were just on a dirt track and there were of course no barriers between observers and cars. With so many drunk people around I'm suprised there weren't any accidents but amazingly not!
Monday, 11 June 2007
June update!
Hello people! I'm afraid I'm turning out to be a rubbish blogger - too busy living my life to have time to write about it online!! Sorry, I will try to update it more frequently and check people's comments too. Thank you if you're still bothering to read it! For up to date info on what I'm involved in for work check out http://kingscommunity.wordpress.com/ - you should be able to see lots of photos from the camps we ran over April and May. It takes too long for me to upload them onto this blogsite especially when Matt's already putting them all on our Kings website! There is also the latest newsletter just posted on the site which lets you know exactly what we're up to at the moment.
I'm doing well at the moment - really enjoying the job and also love living here in Botswana. My weekly projects are going well. The kids from I Am Special are going to compete in football and athletics in a big Special Olympics type competition at the end of the month so I've arranged training time for them at the University of Botswana sports stadium. We started last week and it was great fun! They really enjoyed running round the track and having more space to train as their school has only a small playground for sports. It was the first school trip they'd had in a while and so they were really excited about the whole thing : ) We even managed to get the national athletics coach to come and train them!!
I've started another sports leadership training with a new group of young people at the SOS children's village. I have 6 new young people training now, Joyce, T, Lil K, NT, Jay-Jay and Khumiso. A couple of the leaders from the last course are helping out each week and I'm trying to involve them in training this new bunch of leaders. Our program runs each Sunday afternoon. We do sport and a sit down program with about 60 children from SOS between 3 - 5pm and then I do half an hour theory session with the leaders and we plan the next week together. It took a few weeks to really get running but yesterday went really well so I was pleased. It's easy to get down as things are so changable here - it's hard to get volunteers to commit to programmes on a weekly basis so some weeks will work really well with lots of helpers and other times I'll turn up and it will just be me there with the kids. I'm definately learning patience! And also having to leave the results of my work up to God and to really be doing things for His glory and not to make me feel good about myself.
Well it's my day off today so I'm going to go and enjoy it! xx
I'm doing well at the moment - really enjoying the job and also love living here in Botswana. My weekly projects are going well. The kids from I Am Special are going to compete in football and athletics in a big Special Olympics type competition at the end of the month so I've arranged training time for them at the University of Botswana sports stadium. We started last week and it was great fun! They really enjoyed running round the track and having more space to train as their school has only a small playground for sports. It was the first school trip they'd had in a while and so they were really excited about the whole thing : ) We even managed to get the national athletics coach to come and train them!!
I've started another sports leadership training with a new group of young people at the SOS children's village. I have 6 new young people training now, Joyce, T, Lil K, NT, Jay-Jay and Khumiso. A couple of the leaders from the last course are helping out each week and I'm trying to involve them in training this new bunch of leaders. Our program runs each Sunday afternoon. We do sport and a sit down program with about 60 children from SOS between 3 - 5pm and then I do half an hour theory session with the leaders and we plan the next week together. It took a few weeks to really get running but yesterday went really well so I was pleased. It's easy to get down as things are so changable here - it's hard to get volunteers to commit to programmes on a weekly basis so some weeks will work really well with lots of helpers and other times I'll turn up and it will just be me there with the kids. I'm definately learning patience! And also having to leave the results of my work up to God and to really be doing things for His glory and not to make me feel good about myself.
Well it's my day off today so I'm going to go and enjoy it! xx
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