Christmas Party :) Santa is coming...

Hello again,

So now in this post I am going to tell you about my last week.

During the week didn’t actually happen that much. We were busy caring for the children, finishing the certification stuff and practicing the Christmas Play. Charlotte, Hannah, Leonie and I had the idea to play the Christmas story with some of the Children on our Christmas Party here. So it was a difficult job to find some children, who wanted to act and are able to speak fluent English.

We practiced really hard with the kids, so they knew their texts by heart.

So I go on now haha. On Friday we had to decorate the Casa Nova, the hall where the meal would be served. It had been not a good mood, because this time actually had been our off time. Plus the woman who organized all the stuff had not been there, so we just started to decorate. Finally, we were almost finished by this time; she showed up and didn’t like anything. So we had to do it all over again. The Christmas tree should been decorated by us, all the volunteers. Since we wanted to show some German tradition we decorated just in red and gold and not a holy lot. Her comment: “This is the ugliest and most disgusting tree I have ever seen. It looks like it had never seen any water. “ Besides the tree was a plastic one, this comment was really disrespectful and our mood went further down. 

The casa nova decorated

Oh well on Saturday morning we had to get up early to decorate the tables, which looked nice because Maria organized everything. Afterward we got dressed and went to the Church with our acting kids to get them dressed.

In Church the Choir of the older boys and girls sang, we heard may thanks from different people, had our play (which went really really good!) and almost all kids got certificates plus the schools and geements (communities) and also we, the volunteers got some.

Afterwards we went back to the Kinderhuis, where some of the smaller boys showed Zulu dance.   

In the Casa Nova we were supposed to have a great lunch, which turned out to be meat, half of a Hot Dog bread and a soon full of potato salad. Not a lunch we thought it would be.

Shortly after the lunch Santa Claus came on a big truck. Well actually seven Santas came, one for each house.

All the kids followed the truck, even climbed on it, and got their presents. The smaller ones got stuff like dollies, kitchen stuff, skateboards and the older ones money or gift cards.

 

We had to serve the donators of each house coffee and cake in the house. It was a strange feeling because those people behaved (well that is my opinion) as if they were something better. In the beginning they didn’t even say hello and then suddenly they told me what a good work I do and that it must be so difficult. Oh well, at least I got some cake and also a little present from the church here.

My house

The house was decorated by me and the children

Dumsile with her present

At all I must say it didn’t feel like Christmas and all the work was way to intensive for not even half a day, but the children were all so happy about their presents and the tons of sweets they got and this was defiantly the most beautiful thing to see this day, the brighten eyes and big smiles J

Today we all make a chilly Sunday.

Have a nice Sunday everybody

Love from Greytown, where it is raining again

Fredo

Jonny Clagg concert

Hello my dear follower,

I am sorry before I will write about this weekend and the Christmas Party we had yesterday, I will first tell you about my last Sunday.

On this day we all went to Durban. Maria, Hannah, Leonie and I drove with Trevor, the guy who took us to the Hot Springs weeks ago. He also took three friends along. We drove towards the Botanical Garden in Durban because there would take a concert place.

Since we did not know what to expect, we just had some ice tea and toast to bring along. But it didn’t matter at all because it was a nice picnic atmosphere in the Garden, Trevor even took along some camping chairs. There were also some commercial tents, where we were able to get some coups of soup, even to bring home.

Leonie and I at this tree

So we were excited about the concert. The choir, called Ladysmith, performed a mix of Zulu music and dance, they also wore some Zulu dresses, and yes it was only guys.

Since this kind of music was not my favorite one, Leonie and I decided to walk through the Park, which was a little difficult because the area around the stage was locked. But we had fun seeing trees which roots grew from the ground until the top of the tree and some other trees threw strange wooden things apart.

The second act, Jonny Clagg, was really good. This guy is a white guy who sings Zulu music and was even in the Charts in Europe. Maybe one of you knows him

He played for over an hour and we danced along. It was really fun!

After the concert we decided to go drink a cocktail. We didn’t know what to except but it was wonderful! The Moyo is a bar at the beach over the water of Durban. Since it was dark we got to see Durban’s skyline at night. I really like the City.

We came back home really late for a Sunday and wanted to eat plus I had to finish the cake for Nesi’s Birthday. I was glad when I was in my but also I thought it was probably my favorite week here in Africa so far. I love Durban an d can’t wait to go there for a weekend with Leonie.

So this was my last Sunday…

I hope you can see by the pictures how happy I had been :)

Love you

Fredo