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14 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

14 Mei

Today was our last day in Motherwell. First we all went to the créche and when it finished we went to all four Thamsanqua houses one by one to say goodbye to the children. All the houses had made something for us, a card, quotes from the bible and ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

13 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

13 Mei

Today we went to help in the créche in the morning. We played outside with the kids and told them a story from the bible. After it was over we went to a different Thamsanqua house where the others had been busy varnishing a table and making a TV ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

12 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

12 Mei

This morning 2 of us went to the créche and 2 of us were supposed to help Adriaan fixing things however, there wasn't a lot to do so I ended up doing nothing for the most part. In the afternoon we went to visit the mother off 2 girls living in a ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

11 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

11 Mei

Today we drove back to Port Elizabeth early in the morning but stopped to look at a so called Big Tree along the way. We had to pay 36 rand per person to get in and there were two people in the middle of nowhere to make sure you payed. Then we had ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

10 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

10 Mei

Today we went to a town half an hour from Pettenberg Bay where we were staying. We walked around for a bit and later went to the beach. The water was pretty cold so me and Adriaan were the only ones who went for a swim. This is another short ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

9 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

9 Mei

Today we walked on a peninsula called Robbenberg not to be confused with Mandela's prison Robbeneiland. It is a protected nature area and very beatiful. The path takes you through forests of dune plants, rock formations and beaches. The wildlife is ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

8 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

8 Mei

Today we left early in the morning for the resort. On the way there we stopped for the bungy jump. Charlotte and Jurre said they might go but chickened out with a large amount of bad excuses. We had to walk through a catwalk suspended underneath the ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

7 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

7 Mei

Today me and Jurre were sent to sand and varnish the table at Cynthia's house whilst Adriaan replaced some bookshelves. Afterwards we went to the mall again. Because this is a rather short report of what we've done today, I will also share some ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

6 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

6 Mei

Today me and Jurre went to work at the boys house. We sanded a table using sandpaper and varnished it. Anneke took the housemother to go shopping which made her very happy. We also gave the boys a new football. This made them very happy, but the ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

5 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

5 Mei

Today we took a trip to the petting zoo with all the children from the créche. Everyone was excited. They had peacocks, goats, pigs, horses, cows, alpacas, ostriches, emus, bunnies, geese, ducks, sheep and donkeys. Afterwards we got hot dogs. It ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

4 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

4 Mei

It was Peter's birthday today, so I was woken up at 7 in the morning to celebrate. The principal and his wife left soon after and we got ready to go to Motherwell. Working in the crèche is interesting but not exciting. You are constantly amazed at ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

3 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

3 Mei

Today was a free day so we didn't get up too early and we drove to the beach in the late morning. There we shopped for souvenirs on the market before having lunch at a restaurant near the beach. It was Thamsanqua's got talent today so all the ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

2 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

2 Mei

Today, we drove to Kwantu wildlife park where we were going on a safari. We arrived in the lobby and payed 500 rand or about €40. Then we were seated and had to wait an hour. We were brought, in this order: warm wet towels to wash our hands, a ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

1 mei 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

1 Mei

Today we had an interesting day. In the morning, we drove to the Township and visited one of Thamsanqua's houses. Whilst driving to another one, we realised that there was a rally being held at by the EFF at the local Football stadium, the Economic ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

30 april 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

30 April

Today we had a pretty quiet day. We went to get the door from one of the houses and dropped off Jurre and Sara at another one. Then we drove to a third one where we (Adriaan, Charlotte and me) installed the new door, replaced a lock, fixed two ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

29 april 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

29 April

Today we first went to a community meeting set up by Tia in a so called "Shack" neighbourhood which basically means all the houses are shacks. So far we had only been in the better off parts of Motherwell and I never realised that there were such ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

28 april 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

28 April

Vandaag zijn we naar het huisje van Elle gegaan om te helpen in de crèche en om wat dingen te repareren. We lieten Sara en Charlotte achter bij de kinderen in de crèche (nadat we eindelijk het huisje hadden gevonden) en gingen we naar de ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

27 april 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

27 April

Vandaag zijn we voor het eerst naar het Township Motherwell gegaan. Townships waren de plekken waar alle zwarte mensen heen moesten na de invoering van apartheid. Hoewel de afschaffing van apartheid nu al meer als 20 jaar een feit is, zijn het nog ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

26 april 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

26 April

Vandaag zijn we naar de kerk gegaan. Ik werd van te voren al gewaarschuwd dat het niet hetzelfde als in Nederland is, maar ik was nog niet voorbereid. We kwamen aan, midden in een industrieterrein waar 4 (!) parkeerwachters het verkeer in goede ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

26 april 2015 | Door: Teun Swinkels

25 April

Toen ik wakker werd zaten we nog in het vliegtuig, ik had, dankzij wat pillen, lekker geslapen. Jurre daarentegen heeft het grootste gedeelte van de nacht wakker gelegen. In het vliegtuig hadden we een schermpje voor ons. Hier kon van alles op ...

Port Elizabeth - Zuid-Afrika

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