So I've had a lovely couple of days! I'm sorry I have not written in a few days - I have good reasons. 1. In South Africa you do not have "unlimited" Internet as we do in the US. You buy a certain amount of GB (gigabytes?) and once you use all of it or "cap out" for the month then you must wait until it renews at the beginning of the month. We "capped out" on Saturday night - so I was without Internet until yesterday.
Things are going well for me. It has taken some adjusting and it has taken some time to get settled and work all of the nerves out - but I think I am doing much better as of TODAY!
I will recap the past few days for you all:
Saturday I helped out at the "work - party" at the church. It is the new SOUTH POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH! They are renovating the old KidStuff Theatre and building a new environment to launch in a few weeks for High School. Saturday night I had dinner with James and Janet Senior - we had Mexican fajitas. Afterwards we played this OLD card game called The Pit (I think). It was a lot of fun -I need to find it somewhere.
Sunday we had church at the Old Mutual Building. It is a GREAT place. I helped out a little in Wamba Land Registration. We started the Why Worry series - which was nice because I didn't see the first 2 - so it was still new to me. After church they had there Annual General Membership meeting. That is when they announced the new name - and guess what James is an elder now! How great! I was able to enjoy Sunday lunch with Gavin and Carla - their son Glen, and Kelly and Morgan. It was a nice fellowship. Sunday evening I watched the US/Brazil soccer match - what a shame US. It was funny - USA was winning at half time 2 - 0 and the commentators kept referring to the "Obama Magic" HA!
Monday was a nice and relaxing day. Carla was off from work so we drove down to Sea Point and walked along the sidewalk overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It is BEAUTIFUL - and it was such NICE weather. We then went to the Waterfront. We went there in November - but it was night time. That place is so nice during the day. I have included a picture below.
At the waterfront - (L-R) Table Mountain, Lion's Head, Signal Hill)
Tuesday was a rather quite day. I did enjoy dinner with the Hastings. Thank you John and Becky! And Rachel for the delicious HOMEMADE (seriously homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies)
Today was a great day! I got up this morning and was able to go into work with Carla (she's the lady of the house where I'm staying) She works for the Association of Voluntary Sterilization. They promote sterilization (getting fixed) after you have completed your family unit. They are preparing for Sterilization Week - so I was able to go in and help the marketing coordinator put packets of things together and such. It actually was a lot of fun.
Then I met with Pam at the church to talk about some projects.
Get this - I'm actually going to paint her new office later this week. The guys are taking all of the furniture out and I'm going to patch the holes - paint the walls cream, the ceiling white and the cabinets green. I'm so excited! I'm a girl and I'm doing this all by myself! Then later in July I'm going to help here with the behind the scenes work when the mission team from North Point is here. I also was able to touch base with The Rainbow House and I'm going to go visit there later this week. I am thinking that maybe I will spend the month of August there if it works out! Please pray about that. I am going to also reach out to the Red Cross Children's Hospital and another organization the Nazareth House. There is even a World Vision Office here - so I thought I might contact them as well.
So for the Undomestic Goddess story - First off let me say South Africans are VERY DOMESTIC - I AM NOT! Everyone has been taking me to the store trying to show me things that I can cook while I am here. I am quite happy with my toasted cheese/grilled cheese sandwich (going on 3 days straight now)
After watching Rachel bake the cookies last night - I decided I wanted to give it a shot. I got a recipe - bought the ingredients and decided to go for it. Long story short the container that was filled with white granulated substance which I thought was sugar turned out to be SALT. Luckily I figured it out when it was still DOUGH. I threw that dough away. I decided to try again. This time I got a little carried away with the electric mixer and softened the butter a little too much (microwave) and my dough was more like cake batter. The first batch burned to a crisp - the second batch was okay but stuck to the pan. After about 2-3 hours of this I decided to put the remaining dough in the fridge to harden up.
Tonight I went to "Book Club" - I know many of you are probably laughing because I can't remember the last book I read. This is actually such a good idea though. These girls get together and bring all their books and it's like a book swap. They tell about the ones they've read - they all pay about $5 or $10 and 1 person buys new books - then they put all of the books on a table and 1 by 1 you choose a book to read for the month. Once everyone has chosen you can go through again. It was quite fun!
Okay - so I'm sure that is enough at the moment! I think I have caught you up on EVERYTHING! Please continue to pray for me. Thank you for all of your support! Also - emails are very welcomed! (HINT HINT!) I love you all! Have a great night!
