Total Restoration

I try to stay positive about those in leadership in my birth country. I have been known to get very irritated at people (usually of the vanilla variety, like myself,) who moan about how our leadership is just going down-hill. Most of the time, the things they’re moaning about are for nothing. I’ll take pot-holesContinue reading “Total Restoration”

One Year

I can’t believe that David and I have been here for one year already! It’s been a wonderful, exciting year–sometimes difficult, but always good. Here are some moments I have loved about being in South Africa and working with iThemba: The moment when kids stopped excitedly waving and shouting “Mlungu, mlungu” (white person) when IContinue reading “One Year”

Blast Off!!

Last week was kids camp, and we had the pleasure of taking 50 kids to the beach for camp! This year the theme was outer space. We have been planning this camp for the past 3 months, praying, putting together the programme, preparing crafts and games, finding donations… so it was so exciting to finallyContinue reading “Blast Off!!”

100 Paper hearts, answering emails, and other ordinary amazing things

So, I thought I should tell you what I do with my life, when all the awesome people I work with are in Sweetwaters teaching Life Skills and being, well, awesome. (Read about the Life Skills program over at the iThemba blog). Networking and Program support means I write a lot, I plan a lot,Continue reading “100 Paper hearts, answering emails, and other ordinary amazing things”