So after a rather wet Sunday, Monday brought good weather and a chance to experience our first braai on Bank Holiday for Heritage day aka braai day. We thought we'd take a short walk in a different direction before getting our lift so after 2 hours and a rather large hill later (Hout Bay - Constantia Nek restaurant for those familiar) we arrived! (think someone was having a laugh at my expense when someone got an image of me walking a mountain path at a prayer meeting last night... It seems that our calling here goes far beyond working with the children as just as we reached the top there was a funny sound, bit of smoke and a rather strong smell and we had to come to the rescue of a couple who we think had a broken fanbelt (I say we..Mark was pushing the car to safety with the help of a nearby tour guide while I comforted the driver's wife as she commented "this has never happened to us before"!!)
Eventually we grabbed our lift and went to Nicky (director of Ikhaya) and Rob's place for our braai. Mark was insistent his first braai king experience should be photographed! Not dissimilar to the English bbq but much more adventerous than just your usual burgers and sausages :)
 | |||||
| Braai kings |
So after another interesting few days it was time to return to Ikhaya ready to practise for our Heritage day celebrations on Friday. We are working with the older ones and (in our very limited experience) supporting them to share about Xhosa history and culture. Enthusiam is putting in mildly as they practise their drama and dance! We don't really need to understand everything - their sense of joy is great.
Let us know if the bold type works better
Bye for now Nay x
 |
| Xhosa men scene |
No comments:
Post a Comment