Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Created by: Theresa
What a wonderful first full day in the village of Malungeni. We filled the day with so many things! We’ve decided on what our goals for our theam 12th mission: To form lasting friendships through learning the Xhosa culture and language; we want to help the community prosper by improving the community center, and give the children hope for their future by teaching them English through play, stories and tutoring.
We met with the new local chief “Dahlislonga”(sp?) and Mama Chief, and as is custom, we were served something to eat (chicken) and the other women of the community were present. We came back to the guest house for our Xhosa language lesson that I’m sure tested Olga’s ears with our attempts at the clicking sounds used in the Xhosa language.
We were welcomed to the community through prayer, song and dance by the children and women of Malungeni. The harmonizing and vocalizations were amazing. The children swarmed Teresa D. as she passed out the photographs she had taken her last trip here in July 2009. All the children loved having their picture taken and would jump in front of each other to make sure they were in the picture. We gathered for more team building and had dinner and then organized all the supplies the team had brought from home. WOW what a load of donations we have for the children.
Thought of the day (provided by James) Flexible people are hard to bend out of shape!
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