Tales of South Africa: 2nd day in veldriff, 7th day there

We had an early start this morning, we went to the main school in the village we're at. It started out that we were gonna split up into threes and doing different classrooms, but it ended up that we all would go into the class and do the ministry.
We played some games with the kids and led songs and pretty much had a program that we would do. We did 8th grade, had a break, then 9th grade, another break, then we had the opportunity to go out during their recess.
Recess was intense, I decided to be one of the two people who were doing balloons, so i got mobbed by kids, i was so completely surrounded i barely had room to form the balloons, so i would just blow them up, tie them, then hand it to the first kid in sight, basically there were snakes everywhere. We did 9th grade again after that, then made balloons for a class of adorable kindergartners. We had another break, then headed out into recess again, it wasn't as terrible, I had no balloons this time so i just started out highfiving kids and standing in one place, this little girl from yesterday's ministry comes up to me and is doing the motions to amazing love, so i start singing amazing love super loud and a huge crowd of kids comes around me and sings it with me, then i sang inside my heart and did the same thing it was so bomb.
After another 9th grade class we had to leave, because we had ministry at the church that afternooon and because school was over.
We had lunch then started off the ministry with games, there were so many kids packed in the church it was ridiculous we counted over 240 kids. I did my david and goliath story for them with motions and i did a much better job than last time, I ended up signing SO many kids' arms with a sharpie, i felt like a celebrity.
On the ride home we got to see zebras and a kudu it was so awesome! Dinner was amazing as usual, haha clive knows me a little too well now, he was handing out candy to the team and as he did he said " everybody may have one .. except krista" everybody burst out laughing. We had devotions then debrief, I'm really tired and we have another super early morning tommorrow, this never ends!

Tales of South Africa: 1st day in Veldriff 6th day there!

Breakfast was delicious this morning, but it was still the usual we had every morning.( superior bread toast with peanut butter, yummy cereal, hot cocoa, juice)
Clive picked us up at the college and we were on our way to a small fishing village called Veldriff. Our leaders made me and mikaela sit up front so we would be quieter annnd it worked.
Mr V saw a giraffe but pretty much everybody else missed it, it was so disapointing. We were going by a nature reserve park and were able to see alot of ostriches, springbok, and flamingos as we neared the village.
This place we're staying at is alot nicer than the house we stayed in a Ceres, this place is like a hotel, but with like houses and there was a beach behind a fence right in our "back yards".
We did our ministry at this pretty big church and we introduced awana to the kids and they loved it! So many kids came it surprised us, it was more than we even imagined would come.. it was all God. I was MC so i had to be on top of everything and it was really hectic for me, but altogether the ministry went really well. We went back to the houses and did some bracelet making, planning, food eating ( sloppy joes :P), and sunset watching.. which was incredibly gorgeous!
That evening we went back to the church and did a youth group ministry time which was really awesome, I did my illusion( hopefully well) and my small group had a great chat and i even got to share my testimony with them. John Yao showed up in the middle of our ministry and started snapping pictures right away, we played musical chairs camp style and that was alot of fun.
One of the girls in my small group sang the team a beautiful song, then the group of them sang us a few songs, then we decided to sing them a few songs, then rob started breakdancing while david and micah beatboxed, it was like a full out praise/dance war. I can totally see God working in the church here and it's so cool to be witnessing.
We at some yummy chocolate cake while we did our devotions then me, mickey, mr v and mrs v finished up the bracelet making then went to bed. The end.