African Escapade's: Day 38 – Our American guest

So the Three Musketeers (As we have been referred to by some people in Bulawayo) have always wanted to take a few youth from Bulawayo Baptist to go see the kids at Sandra Jones Centre and today was that day. Elyse, from America, who we met at church agreed to come with us and spend some time with the kids.

We agreed to pick up Elyse in town and while we were waiting, I took a wander to buy some lollies. I found a lady selling lollipops (or ‘suckers’ as they call it here) for 12.5c each. 30 Rands later (just under $4USD) and we had plenty of sweets. We nearly bought out her entire stock after we found out how cheap her lollies were. We met up with Elyse and headed to Willow Park to see the little ones and the girls.

Firstly, we hung out with the little ones and played Frisbee, but the kids were more interested in Elyse’s tattoo on her arm. After a few hours of playing we headed up top to see the older girls and introduce them to our guest. With all the lollies that we bought, we scattered them throughout the area and had a scavenger hunt. All the kids got involved, even Gogo Rhoda.

Before we had Sadza and beans for lunch, we introduced Elyse to some games that the kids played such as 'Tap the brick' and a dancing game. We had planned to do a hike up the mountain but unfortunately the weather was not in our favour as it started to drizzle for the rest of the day. So we had to entertain ourselves and that mainly consisted of the kids stealing our thongs and having to chase them to get them back.

There's not much else to report, today was pretty much a chilled hang-out day with the kids and our American guest.

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