after almost three weeks of difficulties and some struggles to adapt to the new situation and a totally new life in a really differnt country than Germany, I started to feel better and kinda like I finally arrived.
I now life in the Kinderhuis Greytown. The Kinderhuis is in the middle of Greytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. This is about 1 1/2 hours away from Durban.
I life together with 150 children in a age from 3 years to 18 years as well as with (in this moment) 8 other german volunteer girls in this Kinderhuis.
Since we are this many volunteers we have seperate rooms in the differnt houses. In the first two weeks I had my own room in the high school girls house, named Milly Scott, but last monday my new roomate Leonie arrived and I can happily say: I am glad to share my room :) We now have a bunk bed in there. The room is small and we are often ineach others way.
So my daily life task is to help the toddlers, these are the children who to Kammaland, the kindergarden in Greytown, in their daily life.
I have to be in my house, Nueve Begin, by six am to assist my two girls, Nesi and Anele, with cothing, having breakfast and brushing teeth. At 10 to 7 all other volunteers meet with their children from their house to bring them to Kammaland. Afterwards there is a meeting with the housemothers ( each house has a "mom" who takes care of "her" children.) and all other stuff. We talk about what will happen on this day.
Until quarter to 12 we have our off time.
Most times we go and sleep again and have some breakfast afterwards, but there
is only the choice between toast or porridge.
We separate into two groups, one brings the
children and one fetches them from kindergarden.
We have lunch with the children, toast with
jam, peanut butter or butter (yummyyy :$ ). We decide to go to the supermarket
and get some fresh fruits and vegetables. SO now we can eat healthier and I
actually prefer this meal !
The children are supposed to sleep for an
hour and we have from 2 to 4 office time, so we play with them.
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| Three of the Toddlers and myself |
Last week we
also started to read with them and to teach them numbers and letters, what is
actually great fun but it is also a tough task to do.
From 4 to 5 we have study time, which means
we help the older children with their homework. My children are grade 6 . In
the past week Michaela, who also works in NB and me could recognize how bad the
school system over here is. For example the children were supposed to dived 72
by 3 and drew 72 lines on a paper and made little 3er groups, afterwards they
counted the groups and had their result.
After study time we prepare dinner. Well we
set the table and put the food on the plates. Most of the time we get rice or a
zulu alternative to eat. The meals differ every two weeks. I am so glad that I
am vegetarian, so I get some other sauce, which is okay to eat. At least better
than the meat :D
After dinner our work day is over. Most of
the time all volunteers sit in our kitchen to chat or play cards.
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