FINALLY!

i swam for the second time today! wooo it was so exciting! the water was absolutely freezing and the children, along with myself were shivering the whole time, but they enjoyed it none the less. they are all seriously so excited to be in and around a pool that the whole listening and me teaching them thing is kinda hard. so for now we're just kinda playing around and having fun! 

there is a all of windows to the outside and while im giving swim lessons all these teenage boys come up to the window and the little guys im working with tell me they're "looking at teachers bum" haha maybe i can find some swim shorts or somethin. so first day of swimming finally came and it was great besides the fact that it was frigid and the pool is dirty and in desperate need of a vacuum. 

i have classes of sometimes 3 but today i had one of 9 and at times it stresses me out because, as mentioned before, 50% of the students have varying levels of cerebral palsy and having three kids that cannot be self supported leaves me to have to attend to them and hard to give all the other students my full attention. but they some dont have a comcept of the steps and just walk right off so i've had to make a few mini saves.. i try to teach them some games but the language barrier makes it kind of a funny traslation. but we communicate very well in general. i learned a few Afrikaans sayings, like "put your face in", "big arms", "blow bubbles"  and basic things like that for my little guys.

today we went to a preformance studio, i guess you call it, and these kids(my age-ish) gave us this dancing and singing performance, its hard to describe but it was SO neat! they all wore beaded costumes that made sounds when they moved and they all have such amazing voices! one of the coolest things of the trip thus far!

 also, here are pix of the room that i painted! my friend Jenna painted the base and the lovely words and i did the vines and flowers! it looks wonderful! thanks jenna for letting me help out! i love to do stuff like that. and me painting evryones faces at african cafe! woo:)

i miss everyone and home, but you're gonna have to drag me outta here;)

lindy! the cutest little thing:)

paitning!