To Work!

Yesterday was our first real day of work I would say.  We met in the morning and drove out to Uitenhage.  We stopped at the first school we saw and pitched our program.  They were hesitant on scheduling, but promising, and so we had them point us to the nearest school.  We then arrived at Phaphani.  The staff there was VERY excited to have us.  The guy we were scheduling with said they were blessed and us visiting them gave them "hope and direction".  He was really nice.  Our third school gave us another yes, though less excited.  With these two schools we had possibly over 500 graduates coming our way next week so we stopped.  We then went to the Northern Areas to find some schools to do our normal program.  In Uitenhage we were finding schools to do a crash course that would go every day next week and thus last only a week long to see how the community and the coaches responded to each other.  In the Northern Areas however, we looked for schools to meet for 1.5 hours a week.  The first school we went to we got a yes and start there tomorrow.  The second school was funny.  The principal was out and his deputy was hesitant on giving a yes and wanted to confer with everyone in the school it would effect.  The sports coordinator and Life Orientation teachers were in the room with us during the pitch and were much more hyped than the deputy principal.  They were both very sassy ladies and kept saying we should just say yes and move forward, but the other guy wanted more time.  It was funny.  Successful hunting day though.  It is scary to think that I might have to go do that on my own.

Today I started office work, doing more of the duties that will be part of my regular routine.  Pumeza and I sat down and went through receipts and our money and I made up our bank report and helped with the petty cash report.  Lots of organizing and data-entering.  Interesting though.  I think I will be able to be more efficient about it, but that may be part of this weird month where we are moving offices and the other intern left.

It's Wednesday movie night!  Yay!  Saw Monte Carlo - AWESOME chick flick. haha.  seriously enjoyable though.

Thursday: tomorrow we have a coach's training session.  I get to talk about our Uitenhage move!  Also, the first school we went to that was going to call us gave us a yes today!  So many kids...it's going to be crazy for the coaches next week.

Today we spent probably an hour playing soccer in the parking lot with kids as they got out of school.  The really young ones don't speak English yet so they were just yelling at us and we had no idea what was going on so they'd resort to handshakes as interaction with us.  The older ones were having fun talking to us though.  Nice to play around a little.