Amelia in South Africa
Time is going far too fast here and it is time again to write my piece for the magazine. This is my third piece and I am now over 12 weeks into my year here, a quarter of the way through, scary! It’s Sunday 25th November, Sunday after a very busy week and the Sunday before an even busier last week of term before the summer / Christmas holiday, still seems very strange that those two words fit together! The whether is hot now, and we have been told that now it is going to stay hot, we have had some hot weeks where people tell us the same thing but then it gets cold again. By cold I mean about 24 C but this last week it has been reaching 35 C
This school term has gone incredibly quickly but has been amazing the whole way along. The last few weeks the Enrichment Centre has been in full swing preparing for their Christmas Market and Concert on Friday which went amazing well. We were all so proud of all the children who sang their songs beautifully and mostly all behaved well. The turnout was fantastic with every seat filled plus walls all being sat on! The Enrichment Centre Garden was festively decorated with the children’s Christmas art work all ‘press-sticked’ (and they think we are strange calling it blu-tack) to the walls, baubles hanging from the trees, which us gaps melted while hanging them up, and a Christmas tree taking pride of place. The children’s costumes were all incredible, the Junior class had an African theme, Seniors theme was under the sea and Life Skills went around the world in 10 minutes with the children dressing up as our Queen (with carriage attached to a wheelchair), Barack Obama (complete with limo attached to another child’s wheel chair), the Statue of Liberty, South African cricketers and more! Today we also went along to the school Christmas Carol service, the children in the school choir all have incredible voices so was so special to sit and listen too.
Next week is going to be an even busier week, we have Father Christmas coming to visit either Monday or Tuesday, then 2 girls leaving party on Wednesday who have graduated from the Enrichment Centre and then the end of year assembly on Friday, with the Junior and Senior classes going on their class trips on Thursday too.
It is then time for our holiday where we are going from our home here in Polokwane to Johannesburg, from Johannesburg down to Durban and then west along the coast along to Cape Town stopping off in 9 places along the way on our two week journey and hopefully visiting some other projects and then spending 11 days in Cape Town over Christmas and New Year.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year, Amelia
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