It is the worst alarm clock I have ever heard, it may look nice, it may be sacred, but the screech that comes out of its beak is horrendous..it sounds as if something is dying a very slow, and very painful death outside......and this is what wakes us, if my alarm doesn't!
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| The Sacred Ibis. |
Sunday school here starts at 8.30am and lasts for roughly one hour.
When we arrived, the children were waiting outside, very eager, something which I haven't experienced in the UK!
There were 24 children, ranging from a crawling baby to 10yrs plus. We started off with some Zulu songs Thogo and Antonia, 2 Zulu translators from Westville, encouraged this, a quick game of hide and seek and 'simon says', and then it was time for the lessons.
The children are split into 2 classes, the under 10's and over 10's, and are taught the same 'life lessons' as the children at Happy's.
I had the older children, and taught with the help of Sarah-Jane, my brothers girlfriend. The life lesson was on friendship and jealousy. I would like to say it was a roaring success but there was very little response from the children, whether they couldn't understand me, or whether they thought my acting out or gesticulations were plain nuts I couldn't tell!! They did however like the colouring and worksheets I had taken!
They liked the biscuits at the end even more......
At 10am we left the children, and headed to the community centre at Marionhills Township. This was built with money donated from COPT, and is used every Sunday for a church service. Today the service was mainly in English, but the bible readings were in english and Zulu, and the prayers and songs in Zulu.
The singing was AMAZING!!!
One person from the congregation would start singing, and the rest would join in, clapping, dancing, and banging their bibles, it certainly was an experience and a sight to behold!
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Marionhills Township  Building new houses out of wooden pallets-below. |
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