CEDARVILLE - Day 4

Today we were at the school by 8.00am for assembly, there had been a thunderstorm in the night and it was still raining as we arrived. The children lined up outside by class groups and began by singing the Lord's Prayer in Xhosa, which was very beautiful and moving. David then gave a short talk about Zaccheus.

Then we began the painting. We had three classrooms and fortunately some of the care-givers that we had been with over the last few days came to give us a hand. Some paint ended up on people rather than walls (Mike & Rose you know who you are!) but we still managed to almost complete the rooms by lunchtime. the school was so impressed that they asked if we could do more rooms tormorrow.

At the end of the morning some of the girls did some traditional Xhosa dancing for us, and they had changed into traditional dress (mainly beads). Some of the other girls were singing for the dancers and the whole experience was enlightening even though some of the dancing looked painful. Other groups of children also got up and recited poems for us.

After another amazing lunch we spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing as a group, and the group staying with Kip and Val had THE most lovely steak supper!