10/05 Township School & Kids :)

The next morning Loryn, Arial and I got up bright and early to head on a service project with our friend Sarah. She set up a project with a local agency to help at a school in a nearby township. We headed out around 830 to the office which was actually right near where the poetry meeting was last night. Our project was to paint the school yard walls. They were a very boring white color and we painted them a bright yellow to help liven it up a bit. It looked so much better afterwards! It took about 2 hours for us to paint all of the walls.

Our reward was to spend time with the kids! :) We got to play with them and they were so excited to see us – all bright eyed!!! When you greet the children, if they are shy or hesitant you are supposed to hold out your thumb (like a thumbs up) which shows that it’s alright, and they will touch your thumb with theirs. Once you do this to one kid all of them want to touch your thumb so it’s really cute! We spent about an hour with the kids and we took pictures with them and they sang, prayed and counted for us.

The ride home from the agency was pretty interesting. We went on a bus that goes back and forth from certain spots. I’m not too sure what it was called but it was BLASTING (to the point my ears were ringing) music and they would yell out the windows to try to get people to come on. It only cost 5 rand and it was really entertaining for the time being. But omg they needed to lower that music!!

The first thing we had on our mind was FOOOD when we go back since we all missed breakfast. We stopped at a place and grabbed some pizza then attempted to go shopping in Green Market Square. We were all so fed up with haggling though and we only lasted a few shops then all agreed to head back to the ship.

That night we headed out again and stopped at Mitchells which was right at the water front and started the night off with some fish bowls. To sum up the rest of the night it was a long cab ride to a club that had a dress code and half the people weren’t dressed nice enough to get in. so the group got separated between a few different clubs. The one I was at was a dud.. we had to beg the guy to let us in because none of us had a valid ID on us to show we were older then 18. UGHHH it was so stupid. But anyway he let us in and then we were the ONLY ones in the club haha. It was an early night but still really fun besides all the confusions with the clubs.