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Christina and Emma’s South Africa Adventures! WK10

October 19, 2009 on 4:41 pm | In Christina and Emma's South Africa Adventures! | No Comments

Hi everyone!

After school one day last week we visited an after school/day care program that is run by one of the RPS teacher’s parents. We plan on going to work and play with the kids a few times in the upcoming weeks. We played soccer and net ball, had the kids race, and learned a few hand games from the girls. They taught us a new version of “Ring Around the Rosie.” The words to their version were “ringa ringa rosie, pocket full a rosie, tissue, tissue, we all fall down.” Another game involved having one person dance in the middle of a circle while everyone else chanted “so-and-so is in the house, is in the house, jump, shake your body”. Because some of the kids were from RPS, they referred to Christina as ma’am and Emma as teacher. Unfortunately, our dance moves were not up to par. They also asked us some very funny questions about America and ourselves. They couldn’t believe that we weren’t twins, didn’t personally know the Jonas Brothers, and didn’t speak Afrikaans.

On Thursday we visited the grade R (kindergarden) classroom at Zuurbekom that Chloe Carver and Meghan Barry were in charge of redoing last year. It was fun to play with the kids and see them using all the supplies that GLP donated last year. We also spent a day dotting and organizing the books in the  library. All the fiction books are now finished and we hope to meet with teachers next week to set up a more permanent system for checking out books.

We had a pretty laid back weekend, the highlight of which was attending a Diwali  festival on Saturday night. There were singers, Bhangra dancers, and a light show. To those celebrated, we hope you had a great Diwali!

If you would like to see pictures from the trip we both put up albums. Thank you to all of you who donated books and colored pencils! We can’t wait to distribute them to our kids at RPS.