Mike and I went separate ways on Saturday - Mike to Bible Club and myself to a SAMA regional meeting. I was incredibly nervous about going and there being a bunch of strangers but I ended up really enjoying my time there. We each had to take a food related practical life exercise to demonstrate and I took a cheese slicer and then also showed everyone how to slice cheese with cookie cutters. Not many of the others brought anything so I'm glad I did! It was great meeting Shan again and also several other older teachers - one opened her school when I was only a year old! As an added treat we all learned to make our own sushi and it was delicious!
Sunday was again a very stressful day. 4 new kids arrived, plus all of the ones that were there before, and the youngest class had 12 kids attending. Although my mom presented the class I was helping her and afterward it just felt like everyone was asking things of me at once. We then also went to the Congolese in the afternoon where they ended up arguing after the meeting about that Patrick and Nyota were planning to poison Paderi. I did however take a worksheet for the kids to do while the meeting was going so that is one step in the right direction! Another disappointment was confirming that Nyota was indeed pregnant again - how irresponsible!
Michael spent most of Monday working on Llewellyn's new car, my parents came to our home as we have internet and they don't, and helped me do some cleaning.
Homework Club was quite chaotic as the Hill family joined us. We made Valentine's cards using toilet rolls shaped into hearts as stamps. There were several glitches - one being the unexpected extra attendees and the other being that they stamped thick blobs and so the paint didn't dry fast enough for us to glue their message to the back. Next time I will leave the painting part till last. The kids all seemed to enjoy it though, even Lexi did really well, and didn't eat any paint!
It was my responsibility to present the study at sister's class this week. I looked at the character "archippus" in Colossians. He had not yet fulfilled his ministry from God and Paul was calling him out for it. Class was at sister Rene's home and her carer also attended the class.
The creche course has finally started! We had 11 ladies and 1 gentleman attend at the Tswelopele Good News Center. It felt really strange to be presenting again after such a long break but went smoothly enough. One of the attendees is Erika, a mother that my gran has gotten involved with at MES. Things have progressed as such that she, her husband and two daughters (Leone,6, and Lira, 4) are going to be living in the caravan at Adieu for the next two months.
The Bible Class at Adieu was really interesting, we studied the theme of whether dead people can "curse" you (eg Tokolosh, ghosts, zombies). It was very informative and Leon and Erika also seemed very interested.
The involvement with such a family is quite new to me, and it will be interesting, if nothing else, to see how it all turns out. Zante seems to enjoy playing with them, and they are quite attached to me too.
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