World Cup Party

Thursday morning we kicked off the Soccer World Cup Competitions with a party at our school. This is the first time that the World Cup has been held in Africa, and it is being held in South Africa. They have had to build new stadiums and upgrade a few that they had.

For our party we invited all the people in our Village including the volunteers here now. We also invited Patrick Schimwa, the head of our Education Zone, and he graciously came. The classes had been practicing a program with some dances, rhymes and songs. If you come and visit this summer, we will be glad to perform it again! The older class has been learning all the capitals of the countries playing this time in the World Cup. We all dressed up like different flags of these same countries.

We ended the program by praying for South Africa, for peace, for safety, and for all the policemen. We then all ate lunch together, grilled sausage, shema, South African relish made by Teacher Bosman, and delicious cake made by Kimberly, and Page and Gabriel.

Wish you could have been there!