Settling in at Agape
30 Jul 2009 at 13:18
We have now been at Agape for nearly two weeks and are getting used to the daily routines at the centre. The mornings are spent looking after the pre-school children, which usually means a lot of pushing swings! We also help out with serving lunch and putting the kids to bed for their afternoon nap. The school-age children get back between 3 and 4, and after they have changed and washed their uniforms we supervise homework class. Twice a week we have a group of the older children back to the volunteer house, where we cook a meal and watch a movie that they have picked out for themselves. On Tuesday we were able to visit one of the schools that the kids attend (there are four altogether); Shauna and I got to take the grade 2 lesson, which was a lot of fun!
Last weekend we went on our first trip, to St Lucia and Hluhluwe-Imfolozi game reserve. We saw a lot of hippos on the lake and three of the big five (lion, buffalo, rhino) in the park, as well as plenty of giraffes (Shauna's...
Name: Mark Taplin
Volunteered at Agape from 20 July 2009 to 15 August 2009.
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