Last week at Mapheo we took the kids up to the dam for an orienteering lesson. This VERY exciting event was organised to help explain that God has a plan for each of our lives, and He gives us a map to follow. The trip meant an opportunity to ride in cars again, and to visit the dam - a first for many.
The Kloof Dam in Clarens is nestled in the mountains above the town. It's a really beautiful spot. The kids were put into teams with a 'responsible adult', given a map of the dam and sent off to find various spots. It was a competition to see which team could locate the most things on the map. They were instructed to work as a team and not to leave the little ones out in their eagerness to win.
I didn't have a team, so proceeded to spend a very pleasant half an hour sitting by the dam chatting to the other leaders with no teams. The kids returned, and while we handed out juice and cakes Jeremy worked out the scores.
When Jeremy read out the scores, he got to one team who had done particularly well, but then said he had to deduct some points as they had treated one of their members badly.
Jeremy on his wandering to see how different teams were doing, had come across little Sawana (5) standing on the side of a mountain where his team had left him as he was slowing them down! He didn't have sufficient clothes on and his team had told him to wait there and they would come back for him. So for I don't know how long, he'd stood there waiting for them, getting colder and more frightened.
You should have seen his little face as Jeremy shared the story with everyone. He was literally re-living the horror. It was so heart breaking.
But all appeared to be forgotten when he arrived at Mapheo the next day with his (now usual) smiles, and got busy making a pair of binoculars with me. It would seem that kids really do bounce back.
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