I wish everyone could see the stars from Africa.
I am having a great weekend. friday evening, as Christi and I were walking home from class, we spotted one of our supervisor's filling water jugs from the outside tap. He does not have a host family, s he has to do all the work for himself. The water is only on one day a week, so we helped him fill the jugs and carry them inside. Then we all enjoyed some orange fanta and cookies while looking at pictures and discussing his life in South Africa. it gets dark at about 7pm, so we had to go home. My host faily was starting dinner so I played with baby Pabello. i taught her the Itsy Bitsy Spider song last week so now I have to sing it about 50 times a day. She is about 13 months old so i do pretty much anything to see her giant smile. I took a successful bucket bath which means that I was cleaner after the bath than before I started. For dinner, we had buttered bread, a hard boiled egg and chips (french fries), this is my favorite meal! We also had coca-cola which means i got two cold drinks during the day. We ate while watching Generations, the world's cheesiest soap opera and my favorite show by far. Later, the baby fell asleep while I was holding her, which is the gretest feeling in the world.
Today, a few of us are in town. We are going to get pizza and candy!
Training is going well but I can't wait to go to site. I feel like I will never understand Zule, but it is difficult to practice because I live with a Sepedi speaking family. I have a great family, but I am looking forward to having some independence. Right now they have to do everything for me, I only wash dishes sometimes.
I will have to wait til site to post pictures. For now though, check out Christi's blog, she is my neighbor and in the language group, so we see a lot of the same things. http://twentysevenmonthsinafrica.blogspot.com/
I think it is important to end with the fact that my bedroom is covered with posters of 2 Pac.
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Wow Becky that is really cool. How do you understand your "family" if they speak another langugage?
Hey Becky. My name's Megan, and I'm in SA-16.
I'm sitting here with my friend, Erin. We've been here about 8 or 9 months now.
I read this blog entry to her as she did the dishes (she's my version of a dishwashing machine). It's an excellent entry, and it made us happy to read.
The part about the bucket bath ... we both agreed that it was really awesome that you've learned to redefine your ideas of success here in South Africa. It is definitely one of the most important factors for getting by here. It seems like you're doing well, and by the sound of things, we think you'll do just fine here.
AHA! I've finally figured out how to get the blog to let me post comments...
It snowed almost a foot at our house last Friday. The boys made paper snow flakes for you since you couldn't be here for it :)
Becky,
I loved hearing about your family and the bucket shower and the food.....I think you are having a wonderful time learning about just everything! Mark and I were just in NYC which is billion miles away from anything like your life now! Love, Devon
Beckyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.,.....
It seems like so long ago since we had our visit and nap together at the airport!!! Wow, that was a nice time.
I am very glad you have a baby in your house. I got your letter when I ran home for my 15min break (since I now live across the street from my school!) and then read it in class and told everyone how happy I was that there is a baby! I also love the isty bitsy spider song thing because, for some reason, one of the guys had been singing it earlier that day, and nobody else knew what it was (apparently his dad used to sing it?)
IN ANY CASE!!! I am going to write you back! How long will you still have the same address ont he back of the letter?
MUCH LOVE@@@!!!!!!!!
I wish I could see the stars in Africa :-(
I sing the itsy bitsy spider to Sam, I had to google the words. Pathetic I know :-)
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