Monday morning........

Yet another early start....the Ibis screeched at 6.30am, sorting mugs and trays etc by 7.30am, we were packing the car at 7.45am and off to the Kwadebeka HIV/TB clinic to give out soup and bread to the waiting patients.

Kwadabeka clinic - the security guards on the gates check patients in and out, and check bags.

The patients seem so grateful for this soup, but do tell you whether it's 'up to scratch' or not, comparing it to last weeks, or advising if you need to add more salt or not!

In the afternoon I went up to the Marionhill township to 'teach' an English class with Jude, one of the other English volunteers. Jude has been teaching there once a week for some time, and thought it would be nice to split the class - into the over 10 years, and the under 10s.

So Jude taught verbs and past and present tense to the over 10's, and I had six under 10's, probably 5 and 6 year olds, and I spent the hour and a half teaching the alphabet!

I had some 'flash cards' with the letters of the alphabet on, which I asked them to repeat, and then we had to think of an animal beginning with that letter, ie A FOR ANT-EATER, B FOR BEE, C FOR CAT, and the children had to act the part of the animal.....whilst repeating the alphabet to the point of the new letter each time, great fun but extremely noisy......lots of cuddles later .. a few worksheets and coloured pictures.....a sweet each and it was time to leave, the end of another tiring, but fulfilling day.