at another internet cafe

At an restaurant eating chillen and using the free internet.
Amy and I
At Monte Casino!!! awesome mall!!!!
Monday October19th

im a bit behind. first of all there is NO internet still. its very very very frustrating. and also i had a busy weekend
so i didn't bother writing.

friday: was my day off. but its the kids swimming lesson day so i still did some work. i just loved taking the kids in smaller
groups to the pool. so much fun. they are terrified of water and so its a chore just to get some of them in, but once they get
over the fear you can tell they have so much fun. after the pool we had a little volunteer meetng and then Taylor, amy and i
went to our little internet cafe and i posted the previous update. I got to drive a little bit as well and i was way more
comfortable once i got going.

Saturday: the rest of the gang went to the lions park in pilandsburg (no clue how to spell that one) but i had to work the afternoon
shift so i stayed behind. it was lekker to have the whole place to myself. i got a sweet phone call from Michelle M. and then walked down
to Spar to return a movie and get more airtime for my phone. then just chilled out watching tacky noon television. its cool watching
another cultures tv. lol. then i worked and went to bed very very very on time.

Sunday: up with the birds. Brad and Chanee drove in from jo-burg and picked me up for church in an area called four square, i believe. there
is a little church plant there that planted out of Brirntson (spelling?? lol) so i got to meet a quite a few new people and a lot of them
knew Mark and Jen back in Canada, so i was litereally introduced to everybody as "gwyn from Canada, she goes to the same church as mark and jen."
haha. awesome. i met a lady at the church who was visiting from somewhere in the interior of canada. isn't that a small small world? she was there
visiting her parents. anyways, i now have her business card, she sells and exports biltong and all kinds of South African
sausages and meats. lol.

Church was brilliant. it was sweet to fellow ship with a smaller group of believers. i think i got a chance to meet/chat even briefly with the entire
church. yeesss... it was small... lol.

after church i was taken out for a lunch with brad and chanee and then back to the babies home for an afternoon shift. i got to take 8 of the kids to a birthday
party on the property. it was so fun and the kids ate so much candy it was crazy. they loved it and i had fun, especially when i realized four weeks ago
i would never in a million years considered taking 8 kids under six years old out alone. and yet here i am....... :)

sunday night Nicole, Mamello and i went to the movies. it was stellar, we went to this huge huge huge mall that is also a casino.... Monte Casino its called.
i'm betting if you google it, it would totally come up. (don't have internet right now or i would try it to prove my point) anyways it
was pretty awesome. the theater is huge. the whole thing is huge. we strolled around the mall after the movie and checked ou the casino. turns out, casinos are
boring. but after seeing them in the movies and stuff it was cool to walk through. when we parked and got to one of the many
entrances and i couldbn't stop looking at the signage out front. i will post the picture, but basically it said the the mall was a 'gun free zone' and that i could
check my guns on a seperate floor!!! haha. seriously awesome. they check your bags at the entrances and run you over with a metal detector as well.. ... ..
its pretty intense i suppose if you think about it but mostly it just cracks me up! lol

Monday: worked the morning shift today. its getting easier every shift but i'm still pretty much exhausted every time. 15 kids will run you ragged i tell ya.
after work a bunch of us went for a late lunch down at Spur. and then i went to life group tonight. tried another new group, sidney and janenes. it was great.
the guy that led the group, i've actually met him and his wife before when they were visting in canada. so it was cool to hang out with them a tiny bit. the
group was really big tho and that made it very hard to connect really.

thats about all for now. sorry its kinda a rushed update. its almost tuesday now by my clock and i'm supertired. hoping the internet will be connected soon but
i've stopped holding my breath now!


cheers