Who Stole the Chicken from the Cooking Pot?

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Well, it is about 11:00 PM here and we are in the middle of writing our script. It's our first full day in South Africa and we started by shopping at Woolworth's. We then headed to our production offices sponsored by Enigma Films (a South African production company). Our programming started today at James House. We worked with 19 kids -and we might get 1 more tomorrow. That's a lot for our program. And they all had hard to pronounce names with clicks and all! According to them, I look like Lucy Liu and Nichole looks like J-Lo. LOL. That's hilarious.

The drive down to Hout Bay which is where James house is is absolutely beautiful. You either see the beautiful ocean or Table Mountain. Hout Bay which I take to be somewhat of a suburb is interesting becuase its has this affluent area -think Malibu homes and also not so affluent homes. Most of our kids live in the township which has shanties. When I was speaking with one of our pariticipants -Nosisana, she said she lived with her brother and mother in a shack and they had to save all their rand (the currency) to pay for the rent. Who pays rent for a shack??

But let me back up. Overall our first day was awesome. These kids were great -and I know I say that a lot but there enthusiasm and willingness to jump in was unparallel. They had sooo much energy. We played our games with them and they wanted to teach us theirs. It was soo funny. I wish you all could play -one was a movement game and the other was "Who stole the chicken from the cooking pot?" Confused -think "who stole the cookie from the cookie pot"...Wow!!

I think that is it. Being in Cape Town is surreal still. Nichole and I woke up to the sounds of the market setting up downstairs below us. And we are still up because someone is being a baby.

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Photos

Table Mountain
Sooo beautiful!

Coast
View of coast on Drive from Hout Bay.

James House Participants I
During snack...

James House Participants II
Another one during snack...

Comments

[Trisha]

I wish I was there! What an amazing experience.

[Roxy]

Hello!
I delivered the hugs and kisses to Jordan from you guys. He's sleepy,but fighting his sleep real bad. I can't even tell you how many times we watch Cinderella, Nemo and Monster's Inc. a day. It sounds like you are having such an amazing experience. Hoepfully I'll be able to travel the world in my life time. Love you guys!