A week of hard work on language and cultures, history on ancient and current....

All been heavy, especially history....  what was told in classes, and its long after effect....

Suggest you to google some...

Again, all were my personal opinions and views.  Only for my personal friends and relatives to know what I have seen and done at where I am.

Okay, time retricking.....

Last Sunday, my host sister was more excited to prepared her daughter’s hair for my calling of neighborhood kids gathering at 2pm.

Thanks to these ones came only few minutes late....

I had kids to memorize the time table for half an hour, the same as what I had been done in all villages I had been in.  During the time I asked advanced ones to help the slower ones to learn how to memorize it.

Than, all kids chose one page of pictures from the coloring book to do their own creative coloring on it.

This was liked by all, every where.

Host sister helped her five year old...... but seemed more for her own liking also.....

After that I have all to vote for the best three.... at the time the wind picked up and we can’t lay all finished art works on the bunches in peace..... Roughly we had the best three picked and I first have kids wash hands with alcohol gel and gave them a cookie each and one each of children’s chewable vitamin the second, with a piece of hard candy that I have collected in our classes at resort, for mostly no one  been touched them.

I really don’t like to see any one, young or old to take on sugary candies or drinks, but I have nothing else to do these rewards..... Sorry, kids..... Only ten more weeks I will be here.

Only a week after that night the rain came with lightning and thunder storm, our two huge trees next to the 5,000 gallon water tank are now having the new leaves on all tips, some even with flowers.  

Can’t wait to see when they both are in the full blooming.

At the other hand, the Aloe plants with these fruits, seemed fallen in speed.... hmm....

Can there be any usage on these fruits from the aloe plants?

Weather been changing fast....  At night, it had been about a week, no need with sleeping bag on the top of blanket; and these days being comfortable with only bed sheet cover to sleep.

But in the morning, while waiting for the van to pick up to classroom at the resort, these birds were still puffing up their feather to keep warm. This baby bird just wouldn’t leave its mama’s warmth.

Look at that mama bird!

I think, this one could have been the cousins of those ones I had seen in the park in Taipei.....

We were having the language classes by the different language clusters, at the lawns in the resort.

It had been heavy on gramma and sentence structure.....  I am a story liker but not an analysist on its gramma, etc... Yeah! It been a long tough week for me. 

Luckily, I think, our little cluster of us three, learning the Xitsonga together, we have the best two language and cultural teachers from all. 

I appreciated that they had ways to keep me up still in this class.  This itself is amazing, even to myself.

And I have the most up lifting class mates of all too.  One just freshly out from school and one just freshly retired.

I am thankful and grateful to these and all.....

One day at the end of the classes, I got to sit next to the driver in the van home, and got all the photos I had been wished to take.

The resort after the fishing derbies’ weekend, it got quiet again.

This dammed up lake - LoskopDam..... Surely been underappreciated..... 

Coming down from the hillside, I can see better on what in history classes we had been introduced to what “Good Neighboring Policy” meant and done.  Plus stated that all doors to open for all race, all cultural groups, no matter black, white, mix or Asian” was done at the transition period of time before and after 1900s.....

Land was largely given to Chives to divide for their people.  Yes, large piece of land for every household acquired.  Within the residential areas, there was no facilities for school, health, and businesses

Ahaa! I got to see a pig while editing photos..... I had never expected the pig walks in open areas....

At time when I took this pic, I thought it was a big fat goat from the distance.

At the time our van got nearer to our host homes, the cattle everywhere were to go home too.

Lucky that I had these action photo with this little pond of waters to reflect the sun light.

A neighbor near my host home who has many cows and had hired 
hands to take them out in the morning and back before the night......  I had looked around times, just can’t see where can be the grassy land for all these cattle anywhere near.

I have better stop this one here..... till next one.....

Cheng 9-11-2023