a typical day!

(firstly- apologise, i got the compases bearings wrong in my head when writting the prevous blog- the  voh is on the east side of cape town, wally would love to point this out for the second time!)

soo many of you have sent messages asking about what the "average" day is like in the village of hope- its hard to explain, as there is no identical day.

today for example-
07:30 school run- have to take 3 of the children to school, this involves driving a VW type 23 :D which is allot of fun apart from the gear box (like stirring soup!). as i have recently started doing the school run unsupervised the kids have taken full advantage of my independence- looking me out of the car, wadding around, hidding keys is not uncomon and esp embrassing when done infront of all the other parents are watching! i have recieved a couple of the "bad parenting" scares- but shrug them off knowning the kids aren't exactly 'mine'
08:00 meeting- this happens every moring to accolate jobs etc, grr.
08:30 timbercare- spent the moring with the lovely nurses from timbercare grabouw, we walked round the hillside squatter camp checking up on HIV patcients to see whether they have being taking their medications etc. this was both rewarding when the nurses pointed out ex patcients who have made a full recovery, but also frustating when we see patcients suffering for unnessescary reasons such as not taking the drugs properly etc. will expain more another time!
13:00 grub- depends whats in the fridge, normally and sandwith of some description followed by a quick powernap on the sofa :D
14:00 soccer- today was iraq squatter camp (my favourite), today we had such a great turn out of kids, warm up followed by blindfold/team building game which was great to watch as some kids try to get their peers to negousiate obsticals such as a rocky 3ft drop blindfolded! a game of soccer followed which i ref-ed- shocking!
17:00 back from soccer, quick drink then off to babyunit to look after the children as all the house mums have a meeting with the boss's. this was pure exaustion! three hours straight with 9 kids (i did have help of two others) the evil's once again took advantage of the absences of the house mums and gave us a battle, uncle simon, aunt kat were passed to the limit. espacially when one guy decided to scaverage an onion from the bin then eats it, a whole evening of onion breath in my face followed grr.
20:00 chill out, type this up then bed :D

hope this gives you guys an idea- not all days are like this!
i will try to start a photo albulm on this blog- one day...


simon x