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Published: July 27th 2013
Dear guys and gals of the reading community 😊
Sup this is the girlies here! Our past few days have been quite eventful...there have been lots of hugging, dancing and some dodgy singing!
O.K. Thursday...we went to the Grace school for the first time and we were dragged up at 6AM!! Thanks Mrs. Reeves! 😊 Bethan, Izzy and Nia do NOT enjoy getting up and Tilly has made a few cold and liquidy threats (cold flannel). As we arrived the lil kiddies' voices filled our freezing ears. It was cute and tots amazballs (as Izzy would say). We were introduced to the school within a tour and all the ladies were swooning over Oscar (watch out Mrs. Fountain!). We created and coloured an amazing alphabet for the kiddiliwinkles (BTW Bethan is typing and her speling is very bad 😉 ). A new game was created called Touch...meant to be tag but they don't speak much English and they didn't realise only one person is on so they went around shouting Tash at everyone and anything. Next was the 3p!c boarders! We played a can game and let's just say their feet eye co-ordination was better than ours. After cards,
cold showers, stripy cake and an intresting dancing/photoshoot done by the well cool girlies we inspected the inside of our eyelids under our pink frilly bedding.
O.K...Friday...well...after the official welcoming assembly at the Grace done by the older peeps we had Mrs Reeves art lesson where we created mobiles with the children and hung them in a tree (the mobiles not the children!). The boys then did an English presentation while the girlies learnt the Shakira Waka Waka dance which we cannot stop adding to and doing. All afternoon in school it was bead and card making with grade 6. Then straight to after school club where we made heart shaped cushions while Tilly had a siesta. After supper more card games were played where lots of cheating went on and Bethan actually won for once...
O.K...Saturday...okidokay...one hour lie in woop woop party time! After a 2 hour car journey we arrived at Botshabelo rabid monkeys attacked us but WonderReeve and Granddaddy in the Hud came to our rescue by locking us in the bus with Mamma J while monkeys tried to rip off our precious windscreen wipers. We wondered round some dark huts with African art and
insects inside. At the tea room Izzy's tongue was dyed orange because of luminous Fanta. We saw lots of baboons and ostriches. On the way back we stopped off at a scary shop filled with real giraffe heads and stuffed baboons. We brought some biltong (which the cat here seems to enjoys, she stole it! Naughty cat, but Mrs. Reeves got her back literally by sitting on her back!). In dinner we all discovered African left and right does exist 😉 wink wink (it was highly enjoyed by everyone because Izzy is highly gullable! BTW gullable has three Ls!). We shall now leave you in peace. PARENTS THAT HAVE NOT YET INTERESTED US WITH YOUR COMMENTS (cought Tilly's and Izzy's parents, we like to feel the love) PLEASE COMMENT! Thank you, we love you.
As Izzy would say TTFN (for the uncool it means ta ta for now)! Xxx
And a message from Mrs Reeves - everyone is fine and don't believe all you read above, the monkeys weren't rabid! Just naughty. It is not often you have a picnic inside a bus because you are surrounded by monkeys even on the bonnet peering in to
see what was inside our rolls! We are all having a great time and the children are working so well together as a team; in fact, while I am doing this they are all practising Amazing Grace on the recorders and singing it ready for Church tomorrow. They are all eating and sleeping well and applying lots of sunscreen. It is hot and dusty during the day but oh so cold in the night, I have resorted to sleeping in a fleece and woolly socks!! They have thrown themselves into everything at the Grace School and although tired by the end of the day, there has not been one cross word or moan - both Mr Hudson and I are very proud of them all. By the way, older people here are respectfully called Granny for me and Grandfather for Mr Hudson, hence the Grandaddy reference above! Hope to update again tomorrow if Internet working--apologies for not being able to blog these last two days.
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Tom's Mum and Dad
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We are so pleased you are all having an amazing time and we feel immensely proud of you all. Hope you are helping with the washing up Tom and by the way, what's with the gloves?