1. Wildfire season has arrived which means that some farmers are creating 'fire breaks' to try and protect their land. This basically means they try to burn a stretch of land in a controlled way so that if a fire does start it won't be able to cross over onto the farm as the land is already burnt. Unfortunately on a farm just outside of Clarens the firebreak got out of control last week and burnt the entire mountain! As a friend was saying 'quite an embarrassing mistake to make - they'll have to look at a black mountain for the next few months'!
2. Last week there was a meercat in my garden - a MEERCAT! I've only ever seen them in the zoo before.
3. Visiting Mpho and Phetheso's family last week me and Moshoeshoe let them try on our sunglasses. It was a complete comedy. They instantly changed from these smiling little boys to complete moody gangsters! It got the whole family laughing which was brilliant. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me to capture the moment.
4. Walking away from their shack we saw some little girls who had built a miniature shack complete with chimney, lit a fire inside and were huddled around it pretending to cook. Very sweet, but oh so crazily dangerous!
5. At Mapheo this week to try and consolidate some first aid stuff we'd done the day before we created a hospital during free play. When I 'arrived' at the hospital as a patient, I was promptly told to lie down because I was dying. Then I died and was buried in toilet roll. Not exactly what we had taught the day before!
6. When I went to the post office this week, Clement the postmaster, promptly asked me if I'd been playing soccer the day before. When I said no, he asked 'why not, Gareth (another white church member) was!' To which my reply was an incredulous 'because I'm a girl!' The same day I had to explain to another Basotho guy that it's not polite to tell a girl that she looks exhausted. Great day for me!
7. Walking home with some Basotho's the other day, my friend Chommy called out to a guy in the street greeting him as a 'nigger'. Seeing as the guy didn't deck Chommy I asked if it's not an offensive word here. No, in fact, here 'nigger' is a complement! It means you're super-cool.
8. At church on Sunday morning I ended up with 8 kids under 6 sitting with me. One of them had a piece of chewing gum that I reckon she'd already been chewing for quite some time. After a little while she decided to be really nice and share it out. So she gave everyone a little piece to eat. I declined my share. After they'd chewed for a while she demanded it all back, put it all back in her mouth and chewed away before repeating the whole cycle several times. Pretty disgusting, but it was encouraging to see this particular little girl share something!
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