Day 7 - A whole week has passed

Day 7 - Yet again overcast with spots of rain here and there.

It's crazy to think that a full week has now passed since arriving in Bulawayo.

A typical intersection..good luck working it out 

We began our day by skyping our YABS (Young Adults Bible Study) crew during their end of year break up. It was awesome seeing and speaking to an amazing bunch of people who we miss a lot. Thanks for the call guys! After our chat with the homeland we headed into the YFC office in town where we caught up with Abraham to organise the youth rally, which we thought was on Friday. To our surprise we were told today that the event was actually on Wednesday...the day which we all thought was our practise day. But that's Africa. Things change all the time and you just need to be ready to roll with it otherwise you'll be left behind. We are still getting use to that! After our meet up with Abes we attempted to get to the Children's village. I say attempted because our driver somehow got us REALLY lost and we ended up passing the Bulawayo Army barracks, which was an incredibly scary but exciting experience and definitely worth getting lost for.

Some young and enthusiastic guitarists

We eventually found our way to the village thanks to Alex's handy GPS and spent a good 4 hours with the girls. Our guitar class grew by two today giving us 5 girls who are super keen to learn and play guitar. Samantha, Shameso and Lisa can now play 'Blessed Be Your Name' the whole way through while Alex is teaching Divine and Amanda the basic chords, which they are enjoying. Jonno is the games expert and seems to know pretty much all the games the girls throw at us now, which is handy because Alex and I still have no idea on how some of these games work.

Pictionary is a big hit with the girls

We left the village and yet again struggled to find our next destination. This time we were meeting up with the Bulawayo Baptist crew for some ultimate frisby. After a couple of calls to Debbie and asking some locals we somehow made it to the right place for an intense Zimbabwean game of ultimate frisby. We played for a good hour and were completely exhausted by the time we got home, but it was definitely worth it. There was an American girl, Alice, who played on Jonno and Alex's team...or so Jonno thought. He called out to 'Alice' many times to pass the frisby to him and it wasn't until we were at home talking around the table when Alex and I had to break it to Jonno that her name was actually Aleece, not Alice.

Outside playing one of those games only Jonno can work out

We have a very busy week ahead of us but are looking forward to the unknown ahead. Thanks so much for being a part of our journey by reading and commenting on the blog and praying for us! It means a lot to us.

Andy