home!

ahh, home sweet home.

Sorry for the lack of updates, the email system wasnt working very well and the person I asked to update this site never received my emails! :( grr!

So well, where to start! Currently I'm in school and havent got my diary on me to write a full report of what I got up to whilst over in South Africa, when I do though I will definately write more blogs!

But my highlights of the trip were:

1) The arrival of the new premature babies, Melinda and Trevor - they weighed 1.6kg each (just under 3.5 pounds!) even though obviously it was sad to have heard that they had been abandoned it was also such an experience to be able to be the person collecting them and giving them all the love and care they needed! I grew to love Melinda so much that it was so hard to leave and I cried!! What a wimp!

2) Playing with Gatsha (A 6 month old baby boy) who was so gorgeous! I took him out quite a lot for walks. His laugh and smile was sooo cute!!!!

3) Visiting Lesotho and seeing how the people there live. Its such a completely different culture, the mud huts and the school were so different. The kids walk 2.5 hours to school and 2.5 hours home! Such a long way!!

4) Seeing the smiles on the childrens faces at the kids club when they had made their own sock puppet and name plate! It was such fun!

5) Hearing the babys laugh!

6) Watching the improvement of Faith who everyone thought would die and has miraculously survived and is such a lovely child!

The down sides of the trip were:

1) Hearing the stories of some of the kids and knowing that they have had such a bad start to life.

2) Being ill!

3) Having to clear a trailer that was covered in what looked like vomit but actually was kitchen grease, fat and left over food like sweetcorn - smelt worse than vomit and baby nappies combined!!!

4) Having to leave the babies there.

I will put some pictures on my blog as soon as I can find time to. Hopefully tonight but who knows in my house right now! lol! Mid move! Very hard work! lol!

Anyway will update again soon
Take care guys

Love Jen