Day Twelve

Once again we had to set our alarms to the ungodly hour of 6.30am. We were invited to go to the local Teachers Training College for early morning devotions before the first lecture began. It was a great time of singing worship and praise and listening to the devotion lead by one of the students. After devotions it was time to give my first lecture ... yes you read correctly, I took a lecture ... Prof Harry Muller is starting to appeal to me more and more. The students (including Jodi) participated in some great discussions about some aspects of love mentioned in the bible. The title of my lecture was called �The One Another�s and Love in the New Testament�. I will be publishing lecture notes and providing reading material in the future for students who would like to study at the Institute of Harry�s Theology.

In the afternoon, Jodi and I went with four of the students for the training college to a local orphanage. As we pulled up Jodi and I thought that the children may take a little bit of time to get used to us and our weird accent, but much to the contrary they came running up to us and stuck to us like glue. One young child would not let go of Jodi, many times she went to put him down, but he would not let go of Jodi�s neck and when he did it was only to place her hand back on his butt so she could continue to hold him. One thing we have learnt about the African culture is their lack of knowledge about personal boundaries ... it was humorous to see Jodi fully experience this with the kids when she pulled out a packet of balloons and started handing them out. I liken this scenario to sea gulls ... imagine sitting at the beach and you see a single gull ... you throw it a chip and as soon as this is done the entire population of gulls that reside on the east coast of Australia come to your one spot hoping to also get some chips ... replace sea gulls with young children and the chips with balloons and you will catch my drift. The children engulfed the unexpected Jodi until there were no more balloons to hand out.

This orphanage is well set up, they have their own chooks to provide eggs and meat, and they also have rabbits and their own HUGE veggie patch which provides next to everything from maize to chilies. This is very handy as food is either very expensive or non existent. The children seemed very proud of their surroundings and were eager to show us every square inch of the property.

It was lovely to blog with you today, hope we can do it again sometime. Until next time...