Stomach lining, exponential form and goodbye Merle

I can't quite believe I've been here for over 3 weeks now, but I definitely feel settled here - getting to know people and places well. So thank you for your prayers :)

This week has been a bit more back to normal (whatever that is!) - as most of the kids went back to school on Tuesday. This means a lot less games and a lot more homework! A few of the schools are still shut due to the damage from the storm. 

Easter Monday arts and crafts 

The primary aged kids are set homework (by us) each day to try and get them up to speed with English and Maths. The secondary school aged kids have homework set by the school.


That means we mark the previous days' homework in the morning, set the next days' homework and then head over to the site in the afternoon to help them with the homework. This is fairly straightforward for the younger ones but for the older ones ....well looks like I'll be needing to do some GCSE maths revision in my spare time! (Who even knew exponential form was a thing?!)

Making Mud Pies!

Shopping this week looked much the same as previous weeks, except when asked to buy 'Usu' from the local butchers....I'll let you guess what that is from the image below....! 

Some interesting looking 'meat' - stomach lining, intestines, heart - you name it!

Last Saturday we left the house at 5:15am and visited another game reserve. On Sunday we went to church, did some shopping at Richard's Bay, went to the beach again and went out to a delicious Thai restaurant in the evening.


Enjoying my first proper coffee in a long time - turns out coffee shops are very rare here 😥

Yesterday, Merle (one fo the German volunteers) wanted to have a real south African experience by getting 'box braids' done before she left. It only took a solid 6 hours - apparently that's very quick!

Merle having her braids done, we were only half way through at this point!

Today we dropped Merle off at the airport :(
Let's see how the first week on my own goes 😁 

I'm thankful there are a couple of people from church who I've got to know, that are also volunteering. 

The beach near Richard's Bay with friends from church 

Do you remember this boy? (See my third blog)  Well this week I got him to smile!!

The school pick up

Merle's last day at site 

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