Weekend! (Days 13 and 14)

On Saturday Khadi and I helped out with Teen Club. They meet twice a month: once with the younger group (12-14) and once with the older group (15-18). It's a type of support group for teens living with HIV. We mainly just helped out with check-in, setting up for the discussion groups, and serving lunch. We also met the mini group leaders (they were broken into two groups of girls and two groups of boys). Many of them have worked with teen club for multiple years (it started in 2008). They were all amazingly dediated to the kids and I could tell that they'd become especially close to the kids in their groups.

woke up to a lamb in our yard. awesome.

first thing on the agenda: group ice breakers

more ice breakers (human bingo)

khadi and i helped serve lunch!

the caterers were so friendly and warm! the woman in the pink argyle sweater had one of the most hearty laughs i've ever heard. we took multiple pictures of them and every time they were excited to look at them and laugh at their frozen images.

the food was so good! it's definitely some of the best food i've had while i've been here: yams, salad, cabbage coleslaw thing, beef stew (o but don't worry, they had fish sticks for me and the one other vegetarian!), rice, and beets (one of the staple foods here). i definitely went for seconds

seventy-two scooped out lunches later...

lunches ready to be distributed

the kids then came by the open window and picked up their lunches!

juice!

i feel like some kind of weird egomaniac posting pictures of myself, but khadi took them and i figured you'd want to see them...

after teen club we decided to walk around "downtown." i put that in quotation marks because it cosists of one street (Kingsway) that holds about thirty shops on either side (a few banks, handful of restaurants (two kfc's!), one grocery store, and a bunch of clothing shops (and street vendors of course!))
it turns out that stores close around 2-3pm on saturdays, so the only thing open for us 3:30pm latecomers was the fruit and veg, which is basically the lesotho version of whole foods, so naturally i had to go inside!

it's a cattle: a can bottle (it had a pop top)

they even had the nut and dried fruit dispensers that i love!

bell peppers! yayy produce!

produce pose

see that grey awning across the street? that's where i got my new mix cd! 113 mp3 tracks for R20 (about R7.5=$1), pretty good deal :)

street vendors

o and ps. this is the newest addition to our house! meet khadi, she grew up in Harlem NY, and is a junior at Southwestern, her family's from Mali, and she's absolutely amazing!