First Day of Work

Sorting and organizing files for the Grade 2 and Grade 3 students

Kyle and Michael weeding a school garden with some friends

Today was our first day working at Aurora!! It was a totally different experience than what I experienced on my last trip. The kids don't start school until Wednesday so it was completely quiet ( so NOT what its like when all the kids are there!!) We spent the day preparing for the beginning of the school year. The job that we were given was to update and organize each "learner's" (what they call students here) file. We had to go through their notebooks that they used last year and from each subject rip out examples to put in their files. Once we were finished with that we had to take each individual file and go through them to find things like birth certificates, health records, registration forms, and work from previous years and put them in a certain order. It was a long and tedious process but I actually enjoyed doing it. Michael and Kyle also worked really hard on a big weeding project. They walked away with their first African sunburn! Today was tough for me because the jet lag is finally catching up to me. Last night we just didn't feel tired so we didn't go to bed and then looked at the clock and realized we had to be up in 5 hours! So I was completely exhausted. It was still a good day despite not feeling great. I'm so excited for the kids to come to Aurora on Wednesday. I can't wait to work with them and also to see how God is going to work while we're there. Tonight we were able to go to the Lockwood's for dinner and had a wonderful meal of a traditional South African dish called Bobotie. It was great to be able to catch up with them! 

Jess (: