As we are apt to do, we have failed to update this blog in
some time. Oops. Almost two weeks ago, we held a community 5K
race with a kids’ fun run beforehand. Although
we didn’t get the enormous turnout we’d hoped for, it was still a success and a
lot of fun. Due to bad luck with the
weather, we had to postpone the race twice.
And when we faced a conflict with the Grade 12 graduation, we were
forced to run on a Wednesday. Despite
all the false starts, all the runners ended up having a great time, and we
still ended up running in the rain and mud.
We managed to get a couple small donations from a friend in
Pretoria and a local doctor. This enabled
us to charge very little money for the entrance fee and even give small cash
prizes. Whenever we wake up early enough
to run in the morning we are joined by kids walking to school. Two 6th grade girls, in
particular, run with us whenever they see us.
We were really excited with them because the younger one finished in 2nd
place in the kids’ fun run and the older one finished in 2nd in the
5K. When the older girl opened up the
envelope and saw cash her jaw dropped, and the next day at school she sought
both of us out to tell us that her mother was proud of her. In a rural area with little in the way of
entertainment, we were more than pleased that we could provide kids with
something to do . . . at least for one very muddy afternoon.
It feels very strange to us that the election is tomorrow. While it’s refreshing to avoid the constant
media coverage, it is simultaneously frustrating to be so oblivious. Someone recently sent us an email chain from
2008 when we made election night plans for people to come to our apartment and
eat pizza as the polls closed. Tomorrow
night we will go to bed long before the result is known and await a test
message from Matt’s sister Courtney to awaken us with the identity of our next
president. And then a few hours later we
will go teach English to classrooms of Zulu students. How times have changed!
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