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I have to celebrate you baby,
I have to praise you like I should.

My last blog over here! It's been a really hectic week, I've been sick with flu since Saturday and saw the doctor on Tuesday who scared the living daylights out of me by telling me I had all the symptoms of Swine Flu. She treated me for it but told me there was a possibility I might not be able to fly home, which was pretty shocking news. I am all better now and didn't have swine flu, but even if I had, it is just flu at the end of the day. They are extremely jumpy about it over here though, our project leader freaked out because his wife and two kids had flu.

Sorry I've not blogged in a little while, it has been hectic and working is exhausting, but that's not to say I don't love it.

Well, I'm sure people will be glad to know that this week has just gotten better and better. I've settled more into teaching and am enjoying it so much that maybe it's time for think about the future. I'm working predominantly with a group of 3 of the older kids, Rudi, Christelle and Christaline and they are wonderful. This week I taught them about the use of capital letters, plurals, punctuation marks and how HIV/AIDS can be spread. Sometimes they find it hard to grasp a certain concept and so we spent an hour on thursday finding descriptive words for each letter of our name. The same boy who asked me for money, Rudi is very smart and is very quick to understand things and started straight away, but the words he used to describe himself filled me with sadness; Rude, Unhappy, Dead and Ill. I had a little talk with him and asked him to look at it from another perspective and all the good things about himself.

There is so much so say, everyday brings so many new stories to tell, so I'm going to try and condense this into something short but sweet.

And everything is pretty fantastic. There is so much to say about it all, but I don't quite have enough time!
The weather is wonderful, but today it was very windy and colder, it is of course their winter here, and the sun goes down very quickly making it suddenly cold at about 6.
There aren't many local small cafe's, they are all quite big and next to shopping centres, so I am hoping that we will soon have a Briarr(BBQ) and a local boy Moweto (I think that is the spelling) says he will cook for us traditional Xhosa food which would be lovely. In return I will cook an English roast and the Dutch volunteers are cooking Hutspot so it will be interesting for everyone to share their home food. I am very blessed with the other volunteers, they are very considerate and sweet and we are very much like-minded.