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Anyway we ot back from Savane this mornng, Jill was preaching at international fellowship so we went yesterday morning and stayed over last night instead. It was reall lovel we swam and lounged and i watched the sunset whilst sitting in/on a palm tree!We seriously overdosed on Protein, I managed to eat an entire chicken yesterday!(only because the menu is limited and I dont like prawns or Crab curry ) and got beautifully burnt, particualarly behind the knees, a reall great way to spend our second to last day off.
I have decided that i am really going to miss palm trees, might even try to bring one home with me, it would make my lion cub and elephant feel at home!
As we were driving back this morning Marina got a call from Sirley the PEPE coordinator and we all listened with baited breath,then jumped for jy when we heard the words 'ate proximo semana'. We all feel quite bad for not wanting to go to our PEPE programme, but last week was a nightmare. Amber and I are working together and we went to what we had thought was quite a small PEPE, armed with blow up balls and colouring things, but it turned out that there were seventy four year olds, and we were stuck with them in a church hall for over two hours. It was horrible, they didnt all understand Portuguese and couldnt get the games we were trying to teach them ,especially as one teacher had to constantly guard the door to stop them riunning out onto the road, and the other just didnt seem interested in helpin us at all! In the end they were just runninj g all around the hall like mad things, dragging chairs about and attacking the drum kit, we ebven resorted to teaching a group of them the macarena at one point we were that desperate. To make it worse when Sirley came to pick us up the teacher who hadnt helped came out and was complainging about us, we were not happy bunnies!!! But we spoke to Marina about it and she is oing to talk to Sirley and explain that it is really hard for us top handle seventy kids on our own when we dont speak Portuguese! And now there is only one PEPE left!
Em and I started sorting our stuff out at the weekend, it is very bizarre starting to pack up your life, so different forom getting ready to come here as everyhting has to be taken back chucked or passed on! Our sisters are quite excited at the thought that we will be leaving most or our clothes ere in favour orf touristy things, Euridice has fallen in love with all of Ems tshirts! Soph and I had our flights home confirmed the other day which is really cool, it feels strange knowing exactly when we will be back, much more definate!
Oooh yeah the freak wind! We went to Nauticos for dinner last Monday as we hadnt been out in ages and wanted to see the sunset on the beach, so we staed there all afternoon and had a lovely meal(i have turned into such a meateater, steak and chips all the way!) the as we were waiting for the bill the wind sunnly picked up, one mitute we were sitting there perfectly normally, the next chairs and tables were beiong blown all over the place, glasses were bein smashed and everybody ran to shelter in the kitchen. I almost lost my swiumming stuff but some random lady picked it up as it flew past her! Then just like that it was over again and we went home ratehr cold and shaky, very strnage, but otherwise it was a really nice evening, lots of girly giggling.
I have been to the cinema twice in the past few weeks, the first time Amber Soph an I went with a load of Oasis staff and others 'missionaries' to see a Mozambian film, "o jardim d'outro homen". It was reall good and we got what was going on despite the portuguese. It was all about a girl who wants to be a doctor but in order to getthe rigt grades is forced to sleep with her teacher, which is a real problem here in Mozambique. There were other side stories as well dealing with fathers having to work in south african mines, sleazy foreigners, HIV/Aids and having to pay for good grades. It was such a real film and really helped us to understand more of the problems that people here are faced with.
The second film Amber and I went to see was children of men which was horrible becaue everyone died and it thoroughly depressed us. But oh well, i gave us an excuse to get cake in Riviera to cheer us up.
Em talk in church went really well on Sunday, she even had it translated into Ndau! There were chuckles in all the right places and Pastor Samuel was gruting approval all the way through. She even streted with the Required HALLELUJAH!
And we have a despidido(sp?)arraged for saturday 17th at 2pm to which you are all invited!
See you soon. Rachelxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Anyway we ot back from Savane this mornng, Jill was preaching at international fellowship so we went yesterday morning and stayed over last night instead. It was reall lovel we swam and lounged and i watched the sunset whilst sitting in/on a palm tree!We seriously overdosed on Protein, I managed to eat an entire chicken yesterday!(only because the menu is limited and I dont like prawns or Crab curry ) and got beautifully burnt, particualarly behind the knees, a reall great way to spend our second to last day off.
I have decided that i am really going to miss palm trees, might even try to bring one home with me, it would make my lion cub and elephant feel at home!
As we were driving back this morning Marina got a call from Sirley the PEPE coordinator and we all listened with baited breath,then jumped for jy when we heard the words 'ate proximo semana'. We all feel quite bad for not wanting to go to our PEPE programme, but last week was a nightmare. Amber and I are working together and we went to what we had thought was quite a small PEPE, armed with blow up balls and colouring things, but it turned out that there were seventy four year olds, and we were stuck with them in a church hall for over two hours. It was horrible, they didnt all understand Portuguese and couldnt get the games we were trying to teach them ,especially as one teacher had to constantly guard the door to stop them riunning out onto the road, and the other just didnt seem interested in helpin us at all! In the end they were just runninj g all around the hall like mad things, dragging chairs about and attacking the drum kit, we ebven resorted to teaching a group of them the macarena at one point we were that desperate. To make it worse when Sirley came to pick us up the teacher who hadnt helped came out and was complainging about us, we were not happy bunnies!!! But we spoke to Marina about it and she is oing to talk to Sirley and explain that it is really hard for us top handle seventy kids on our own when we dont speak Portuguese! And now there is only one PEPE left!
Em and I started sorting our stuff out at the weekend, it is very bizarre starting to pack up your life, so different forom getting ready to come here as everyhting has to be taken back chucked or passed on! Our sisters are quite excited at the thought that we will be leaving most or our clothes ere in favour orf touristy things, Euridice has fallen in love with all of Ems tshirts! Soph and I had our flights home confirmed the other day which is really cool, it feels strange knowing exactly when we will be back, much more definate!
Oooh yeah the freak wind! We went to Nauticos for dinner last Monday as we hadnt been out in ages and wanted to see the sunset on the beach, so we staed there all afternoon and had a lovely meal(i have turned into such a meateater, steak and chips all the way!) the as we were waiting for the bill the wind sunnly picked up, one mitute we were sitting there perfectly normally, the next chairs and tables were beiong blown all over the place, glasses were bein smashed and everybody ran to shelter in the kitchen. I almost lost my swiumming stuff but some random lady picked it up as it flew past her! Then just like that it was over again and we went home ratehr cold and shaky, very strnage, but otherwise it was a really nice evening, lots of girly giggling.
I have been to the cinema twice in the past few weeks, the first time Amber Soph an I went with a load of Oasis staff and others 'missionaries' to see a Mozambian film, "o jardim d'outro homen". It was reall good and we got what was going on despite the portuguese. It was all about a girl who wants to be a doctor but in order to getthe rigt grades is forced to sleep with her teacher, which is a real problem here in Mozambique. There were other side stories as well dealing with fathers having to work in south african mines, sleazy foreigners, HIV/Aids and having to pay for good grades. It was such a real film and really helped us to understand more of the problems that people here are faced with.
The second film Amber and I went to see was children of men which was horrible becaue everyone died and it thoroughly depressed us. But oh well, i gave us an excuse to get cake in Riviera to cheer us up.
Em talk in church went really well on Sunday, she even had it translated into Ndau! There were chuckles in all the right places and Pastor Samuel was gruting approval all the way through. She even streted with the Required HALLELUJAH!
And we have a despidido(sp?)arraged for saturday 17th at 2pm to which you are all invited!
See you soon. Rachelxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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