We've Arrived Seabonga

Seabonga!
We have arrived in Bulembu, and the journey here was amazing! The flight was nice and comfortable, we all enjoyed ourselves, and on the coach journey, South Africa and Swaziland treated us to some beautiful sights.

When we finally made it to Bulembu we were both happy that we had finally made it, and completely exhausted, so we met some of the Bulembu team, grabbed a bite to eat and went straight to bed.

We awoke the next morning to a lovely breakfast, and met our tour-guide, a local named Nati. He was really nice and talkative, and took as around all the local industries, such as the dairy, honey, the water bottling plant, clinic and the bakery. His local knowledge helped us in getting a better understanding of the history of Bulembu, as he is one of the original residents.

After all the walking up (and down) hills we settled into our rooms, and messed around in the clubhouse until bed.

This morning was really fun, as we went down to the local school, saw how everything worked, and played around with the kids at break-time, successfully making complete idiots of ourselves in the process.

After break we got into some in-depth planning with the head-teacher, Mr. Msekiwa, and planned out a brilliant programme for the team. Over the next week, we’ll be working in pairs in the classrooms in the morning, and then in the afternoons we’ll be going over to help paint the Valley of Hope school, which is currently unused, as it needs work, but they are looking to transfer pupils over there by October this year. Therefore this going to be our main project while we are here, and we are really looking forward to getting involved with, as they don’t have the manpower without us. This is a change to our itinerary, but we came here to help, and this is what they need, so we’re all very excited, and agree as a group that this is the better thing to do.

We hope that everything back home is going well, and we’ve planned to have some shout-outs over the next few posts, as we are all thinking of you.
Lucy would like to say happy birthday to her sister Rachael for the 31st, and wishes her all the best.

We cannot get into the office on weekends, so our next post will be on Monday afternoon, so we’ll see you then!
Lots of love,

Team Bulembu.