Youth Drama

While in England I worked quite alot on street drama with young people. While being alot of fun, it also provided them with an opportunity to share their faith with other young people in a relaxed and neutral environment. We had particlarly successful times going for 4/5 day trips to Plymouth, Cardiff and Swansea where large groups of young people gather in the city centres during the holidays. Since being in S.A. we have started doing the same sort of thing and on the 29th we are off to Cape Town for 10 days for a little break and to do the plays wherever we can. We also hope to meet a man who is responsiblefor the stages outside the world cup venues to see if we can organise several drama teams to perform during the World Cup. Here are some pictures of some performances we did at a school and at a mall before Christmas. (I was hoping that if you clicked on the photos they would enlarge but it doesn't seem to be the case so sorry they are a bit of an eye-strain.)

Dogs !!

A pair of Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies (10 weeks old) became a available for free as they are without ridges! (and one has 6 toes!) ... apart from that they are lovely and the kids love them.. they will grow to be very big so we are already very strict with them as far as climbing onto the table etc!

The more the merrier!

The Kids!

Christmas lunch was remarkably stress free with three families coming together and sharing the cooking... and the young pepople and kids (all 16 of them), took care of themselves!


The Adults!

Happy Christmas!

Lots of love to all our friends and family! It has been quite new for us to be on our own for Christmas having had the special blessing of being looked after by our respective mothers for the last few years. I was rather apprehensive that it would not have the usual "magic", but it was very nice and the kids were all very generous and perceptive in their presents to each other and that was especially nice to see!

We are having our old friends Oli and Marie and Andrew and Phoebe for lunch with everyone contributing towards it so that should be fun.

I hope you are having a lovely Christmas too!

For cricket enthusiasts!

Shawn and I took a day out to see England play South Africa on the 4th day in the 1st test in Centurion about 20 mins from where we are staying. Shawn only had to pay 20 Rand ( £1.75) and I only 60 Rand (£5) for a full days play. That was one of the highlights of the day! The rest of it was rather dull, as South Africa slowly wrestled control of the game! Next time I think a one dayer would be more fun!


Swanny coming into bowl.
looking rather hot and parched at lunch time!

Drinks break! Kallis is drinking and Amla crouching down
Alastair Cook patrols the boundary
A typical SA supporter..note watermelon hat!

Ah.... now Leicester Paul would be turning the ball a mile in this strip! ( we were allowed on to the pitch at lunch time...there must have been over 50 games of mini- cricket going on in the outfield!)

Can't recognize who this is! But there was some pretty dour defending....


Stuart Broad running to bowl

Trip to Sun City!

Suki on trampoline bungee

Cool Gem soaking up the sun

A beautiful pool at sun city

The wave! I got into this pool with Gem, and Shawn said there was a big wave coming and to be careful. Well I thought how big can it be? Suddenly this tsunami like wave about six feet above the normal water height bore down on us! We turned to run but it was too late; the wave broke right over us and picked us up and carried us towards the beach shore. From then on Gem watched the wave from the shore! It really was something and this picture does not do it justice!

Beautiful Sun City Pool

Swimming japes! +......

Shawn

Amanda

Gemma

Suki diving




Amanda in front of our house

Shawn wrestling with Suki