1 week left...

4 weeks is too short.
It's way way too short :(
I finally feel like I've settled and now I'm saying goodbye.

Anyway enough of that.
I have more fun facts about South Africa, or at least about Mother of Peace..
Beyonce's Irreplacable
Rhianna's Umbrella
and that song by Akon.. "nobody wanna see us together, but it don't matter no.."
are HUGE hits here haha you'll hear them at least 3 times a day and everyone is singing to it all the time :) I'm gonna miss that
AND while i was doing the dishes the other day.. which I found is really theraputic for me because dishes help me sort my thoughts out! and i'll write them down in my diary which has depressions in it now from my wet hands...
Anyway I was thinking about the kids in the kindergarten... they are sooo young. Too young to be in a home like Mother of Peace which houses abandoned and abused kids you know? They've been on earth for at most 6 years and during that time they've been assaulted, abused, raped..I look at some of these children and see all that is beautiful and sweet in this world and I can't even wrap my mind around how something so horrible could have happened to them.. how someone could hurt them like that.
There is a girl here who's 7. She's been raped more than once. The sick thing is it was her drunk brother who raped and molested her one night when her mother had sent her to her brother's room to get something. I think the trial against him just began... she's already been here for a year I think.
On a lighter note, all the kids went to the circus! like a real old-school lions, tigers and elephants circus.
The animals looked really sad though... then I remembered Dumbo.
ok last thing! (because I have to get going to buy groceries..)
I had dinner with 1 of the homes last night! If I haven't already explained it, the kids are divided up into homes of about 6-8children with a housemother and caregiver.. like a family unit. So I had dinner with 1 of the families and I cooked them some vegetables.. it was really nice. Its one thing to hang out with them in the day, but at night when they're indoors with their family, you can really feel the love between the kids and the housemothers and because I'm leaving in a week, I've decided to have dinner at different houses till I leave!
And... today we were sorting through some donated items so I posted some pictures of the madness!
enjoy!!

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