Wheely good

The next part of the adventure...


My lovely musical friends.
AMAZING singing in the mariannhill choir
Tired after the race, Nozipho and me
Seyanda and his school friends
Dog Shoe
Me trying to look like i'm nice and that i havent seen the camera, in reality it was a set up



Once again we have been very busy, we said goodbye to Richard this morning he has been really great to work with and really inspiring. Thankyou Richard!

We've been to a very remote place called Candu (the c is pronounced like a tutting noise in your mouth) we were there to see the ecclesia there and to help out with manual jobs like fixing the waterbutts up to a hose to water the plants, simon and me also ploughed a field with an old school plough hauled by two bulls! very exciting and scary at the same time. We saw Nelson Mandella's house where he grew up, and also a very nice dog that put a shoe on for our entertainment! There was a dood there called seyanda, he kept us amused. You can find Candu on Google Earth apparantly, if you are bored.

I also ran in a wheel chair race! the special needs school Happy's enters it's kids into the annual KZN (Kwa zulu natal- the area of S.A. that Durban is in) wheelchari race, and one of the pupils asked me to push her! it was fantastic and quite an experience running along this 5k road with cars whizzing by only a metre or two away! we didn't win, but decided that just finishing the race was quite an achievement in itself.

We had an open air concert in Durban centre which by all accounts went down an absolute treat! We were singing christian songs and inviting people to come along to our Bible Education Centre to sort their lives out :)

Last night we had a suprise party for Kim Beeler's 39th it was fantastic, she had no idea it was happening and we'd composed a sort of funny song that was thoroughly enjoyed by the beeler family, which was the main thing. There was lovely food provided by char and jude.

We had nice meal for Richards leaving two days ago (monday) at a place called moyo's which is right on the beach front, all of us volunteers went, and then Christy and David White met us there for the beach after, we had fun making games up in the sand and playing noughts and crosses I think I won over all...

Love to everyone
Kiss to everyone
Hug to everyone
Matthew.

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Monkey eats off my hand! Shamo!

Cute kiddy types at Margate, one at the front tried to throttle me!

We are ringing places up getting freebies, We got 400 tires for a crecha playground, lots of shoe boxes and a box of good quality paper for crafts! What a cool blessing! (christie, simon {in a blur}, Julie, LauraG, LauraI

Hello Mes Amis,

We have been busy bunnies, we have had capers this week!

Simon peel, Laura Iredale, Jude Norcross, Laura Skinner, Julie Machachek, Christy Beyers, Richard Alleyne and myself, went to a place called Marget this weekend, it is quite a small dusty quiet town and the christadelphian meeting only has about 5 members! So we decided to do something about this, some of us advertised in the mall down the road, some of us went to a local township, and some knocked on doors near the meeting room.

The township is the poorest place that I have ever been to, pieces of cardboard are used as walls, buckets are used as toilets and there are people just hanging about because they have nothing to do, so it was ripe for getting people along to church! On the saturday about 45 people came along and on the sunday service about 60! So everyone was really pleased with what God allowed us to do!

There were also some wickedcool things we got up to, like the waffle house, the monkeys, the beach one evening, food handouts, getting to know each other a bit more and breaking the igniotion on the truck!

I don't think I've mentioned Cam Before, he is an American and a dood! He is also a fully fledged member of the gang! he does a lot of work in Durban centre which is where he lives with this family (Kim, Shiloh, Annalise and Wyatt) He also has a bald head and used to be in the Marines!

Other things that have happened, I gave 2 bible classes, Bunny Chow, Stung by a jellyfish, locked out of home jumped in window set alarm off armed guard came, climbed a tree, had roast chicken.... ooooooooooh, I have remebered something else that I have started, I am going to run the comrades marathon!! eek it is a double marathion in may, Christy Beyers was looking for a running buddy and I decided to venture forth and try it... I'm sure it will be a lot of pain but also a lot of pleasure!

I will attmept to put some pictures on, but the computer isn't liking it at the moment....


Kisses and hugsies to everyone, kisses for the masses

*edit* I Have the pictures! (they all seem to have come out a bit dark, it might be this computer because its fine on the laptops.)

Kids at Happy's disabled school being amused by us! It was too good an opportunity to miss (richard, simon, cam)

Durban Beach, it was a bit cloudy but hot, and good for swimming

Amazing mural that I saw and had to take a photo of!