Sawubona!

Thursday was another pretty quite day at work. It was our bible story day so I read the david and goliath story out of a children's bible to the kids (which they seemed to enjoy) and then my supervisor gave a lesson about it in Zulu to the kids. She is going to help me get more involved though this coming week. Tomorrow I am going to teach the kids capture the flag and tuesday I am teaching the life skill of being prepared. Someone will translate for me. So hopefully work will start getting more interesting.

Friday was our day of meetings. We were supposed to have AIDs training that afternoon but it was cancelled so I only had to sit through two meetings in the morning. I got home around noon and had lunch and hungout with Aerin and Anne. (Mayo and Thirza are at L'Bri this weekend and Rose is really sick.) So it was kinda quiet around the house. Then one of the interns came over to visit Rose. He asked me if I wanted to go play soccer with the guys and I jumped at the idea. So a bunch of us went over to the YMCA for some indoor soccer. Little did I know we were playing in a league. All of a sudden the guys are taking jersies out of a bag. Now as much as I like to both watch and play soccer, I haven't played on a team since kindergarden. And to make things even more intimidating for me, Americans tend to play what is called two touch (you trap the ball, get open and pass.) Africans don't play two touch. They do lots of crazy stuff with their feet and fake out their opponents and its something that I really don't have the ball control or practice for. But I played anyway and had a lot of fun. The guys just told me I need to practice a lot before our next match in two weeks. So I came home and cleaned the kitchen. The rest of the nights was kinda low key. A couple of guys (Mlu and Kansas) who live nexted door came over and hung out with us.

Saturday we walked to an outlet mall. I bought a phone and Aerin and Anne got some things as well, including a soccer ball so that I can practice with the boys next door. We came home exhausted from the mall because it was farther than we thought and we had a long adventure trying to find our way through a bike race that was blocking our way home. So we watched a movie and had a very quick dinner because our friend Zazi was playing in a jazz concert at 7. So we went to the show and luckily it was the kind of jazz that I actually like. Mlu came with us and he and I shared some stuff with eachother about our cultures particularly pertaining to marriage and dating. We had some entertaining moments at some of the striking differences. For example, Mlu thinks nothing of the fact that he has four girlfriends. He couldn't believe though that if I wanted to marry a girl I didn't have to pay her parents for her. If Mlu wanted to get married he would have to give the father 11 cows amoung many other things. Ultimately a Zulu wedding cost somewhere around 70,000 rand. Which is a ton of money for people here.

Today is another quiet day so far. Aerin and I went to the store to by some food items for tonight and then we came here. I think tonight we are just taking it easy around the house. Hope all of you back home are having a good weekend. Talk to you soon.