8/29 and 8/30

Hi everybody! So, yesterday I ended up running out of time and wasn't able to post. It has been very busy, and we havn't been able to really take any pictures either. Yesterday we went to church, which was held at the school this Sunday. After church they sold steak rolls, which are really yummy, and pancakes (aka crepes) with cinnamon and sugar in them. After church we all came home and took a nap :) Even Allen and Gloria slept for about 3 hours. We have been going non-stop and were all exhausted. Bri and I talked to Nerina yesterday and she asked us if we would like to go on a hospice visit. Hospice makes home visits to diagnose and treat HIV+/AIDS patients and determine the best situation for a child/children that are in the home once the parents pass away. We both said that we would love to - it should be a good experience to see how they run all of that over here. She said that she would try to work that out for this week sometime.

Today was a pretty easy going day. We started out our morning by counting all of the uniforms that are at the school. Of course, nothing is in the same room, and most of the used uniforms didn't have the tags on them, so it took a long time. The secretary of the school said that without us, she didn't know how she would have finished the school inventory on time. She was very impressed with how we were able to type everything out on an excel spreadsheet and make it all so organized. She said that she isn't letting us go home because we save her so much time and frustration ;) On Monday's at school the staff have a meeting during lunch, but it ALWAYS runs late. Gloria goes to Allen's classroom when their lunch is supposed to be over so the kids can get back to work. However, the rest of the students in the school don't have any teachers that are availible for that, so they just play until the meeting is done. Last week the meeting went an hour over, and today it went an hour and fifteen minutes over. Bri and I asked the 4th,5th, and 6th grade teacher (these grades are all in one classroom) if she would like us to fill in for her during the meeting like Gloria does for Allen so the students and get more work done. She was very excited! We actually had a lot of fun, although we couldn't help them with their Afrikaans ;) After school we talked to the girl's hostile (dorm) mom to see if we can spend some time with the girls after church this Sunday. She said the girls would love it. We told the girls that we were going to try to hang out during a weekend when we first started meeting with them, and the hostile mom said they talk about it non-stop now. They are amazed that we would want to take time out of our weekend to do something fun with them. We are also going to talk to Nerina today and see if we can go volunteer at Home of Comfort, the orphanage, after school during the week. We get home from school at 2:30 in the afternoon, so we would be able to walk to the orphange and play with the kids for a few hours each day. It will make for a long day, but it will be more than worth it! These kids don't have a lot of people who come and play with them. There needs are met to the best of the orphanage's ability, but they just don't have the man power to play with the kids. We would love your prayers for God to work out what He wants us to do for the remainder of our trip. We are completely open and just want God to use us to touch the lives of these people.