Hey everyone, sorry it has been so long since I posted last. But get ready to sit and read because this could tun into a doozie(i am not quite sure how that is actually spelled)
All kinds of things have happened since last time but I will try to keep it semi-organized. We continued our week at Beam playing with children and taking a thousand pictures. Every day when we left they would run along side the vans yelling "shoot me" and waving. (The changes in words are fun for instance, robot, is a stop light) One of the other things that happens at Beam is job creation so there is a group of women that do bead work, hopefully they will have time to complete the order our group placed, so I can show it to everyone. They did incredible work, I got spoons and a bookmark(as long as they can do the order that is.)
The last day we were there Erika and Louie(the people that run the place) took us to a Lion park owned by a guy named Leon(how fitting). About 14 years ago this gy decided that he wanted to have lions. After waiting for permits for 10 years he finally got them and now has 4 lions (Nakita, Rambo, Leon, and Katerina) We were able to see them from about 2 feet (not quite the same experience as the zoo, I am pretty sure my group leader needed a new pair of pants.) It was incredible, right up to the point where rambo tried to break the fence down inducing a few panic attacks. Also not hleping was the fact that Leon was "in season" (apparently that is the nice way to say in heat) so he was roaring and growling at everyone that came near Katerina or him. Then we got to see them eat, and we learned all about their diets, right before we went to eat(bad choice). It was really cool though.
At beam we also were able to show the Jesus Film to the children before we left. (on a projecter that is older than my parents I am pretty sure) (If they are reading this LOVE YOU! and I promise I didn't just call you old.)
Saterday was a day nearly off of all thought, there was a lot of shopping at Hatfield near the hostel. I walked around with Ashton and I think we discovered every store possible. I was looking for warmer clothes (winter here is a lot colder than i packed for). That night we went to a Rugby game between the Blue Bulls and the Cheetas, Soooo COoooool! I got a couple good pictures too. The only problem was that while it has not rained for months and "will not" rain for months, it poured on us for the entire second half. It was a really nice cold rain though, if there can be souch a thing. We all jumped the Bulls bandwagon as they were the local team and figured we should go with the crowd, rather than getting jumpped. Turned out to be a good plan too as they won 31 to 23 (don't quote me on the score though, the important part was that they won)
Sunday we returned to the site where Beam opperates. The land is actually owned by a church and we attended there service (what I will call a far cry from any thing I have ever been to in the U.S.) Think Southern Babtist meets Dance Dance Revolution invaded by white people from the U.S., pretty cool aye? It was amazing they called us up to sing for them and then a few of us spoke(not me) to the crowd, and then James actually gave the sermon which was interperated by Peter who works for Beam. It was incredible, we all had to sit by someone from another group integrating the congregation, I sat by Moses and Francis cool guys. Finally they taught all us white people how to dance at the end, pretty funny. The best part had to be the old lady that someone gave a mic, whenever there was a pause you would hear a wail and then everyone would start singing. I don't think most of the singing was really planned, but it was all good.
Monday the South African Staff for crusade had it planned to do training with us for 8 hours...hahahahahahahahaha, that was pretty funny our leaders talked them down to 3 after which we were all dead anyway. Then we ate lunch (Nando's is possibly the best chicken ever) and they have suckers that taste like candy corn...mmmmmmm. Finally we were able to go to the University where we will be for the next couple weeks, and walk around. Then we headed to the dorm where the guys are focusing their attention. We went down 4 floors, and started as many conversations as possible. It was a pretty successful night.
Anyway Ihave to leave now but you are pretty much caught up, hopefully it won't be another week before I can post again. TAFN(thats all for now)
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