Hospitality

In the one week that we have been here we have received several offer to stay and go and eat at many different peoples houses. In the last two days Cindy's family has had us over for two authentic South African dinners, the first night we had mashed potatoes, sausage and a sort of steak with tripe on the side (the tripe was a challenge for me and many of my group members). Last night we ate something like cous cous with potatoes, a meat stew-type dish, sweet beans and coleslaw with chicken. There is always too much food and it can be difficult to finish. We sang, danced...Zulu dancing often consists of clapping and one or two people kicking their leg as high in the air as possible (the object is to get your leg to touch your ear!) its quite fun to try and our hosts break out in shouts when we make our attempts. The people here love to sing and I absolutely love hearing what beautiful voices they have. The family that has been having us over has a TV so we watch music videos and south African shows, they are interesting to watch. The end of the night is marked by a song and a prayer and they then drive us back to the creche. Kindly they even offered to drive us into town today to run errands (a one hour drive) and so now I am able to get online. This week I think that we will be working on a variety of projects, gardening and visiting schools.