Today I have had at least three different preschoolers occupy my lap at some point - a very welcome change from yesterday, when they were all scared of us (most had never seen a white person before)! We taught them Red Light Green light, or in SiSwati, "Hamba Manni" (HOm buh MAH nee, which means "Go, Wait"), and Father Abraham before we went inside to listen to the story of Zacchaeus and make paper telescopes. With the first and second graders, after the story time we taught them a simplified version of the electric slide and had a freestyle dance party to Josh Vietti's "Night in Paris" on my iPod (video is coming soon!). With the seven-fourteen year olds, we did a bunch of activities after story, including Simon Says, a hand game called Slide, and weaving bracelets out of thread.
Today the bishop, or pastor, was at the church all day - he had been away yesterday. when he was trying to learn all of our names, he either thought my name was or just compared it to "treasure", or as he said it with his accent, "Tray shuh". Besides the children, we have a lot of adults hanging around as well. Some help in the garden, some help with the children, and others just watch us. One of the gogos (gogo means grandmother, and all of the old women are referred to as gogos)was named "Busisiwe" (Boo SEE see way), and she had the most amazing laugh ever! It was more of a happy cackle, actually. Don't have much else to say tonight - have to be up at 5:00 to be ready for prayer at 5:45 tomorrow morning.
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