At one point of time, I thought I was to close my Sunday 2pm's neighboring kids gathering.
For Peace Corps required all kid's pictures posted at any of outgoing emails, etc. all need the parents' approval and signatures on file.  
But the forms for parents' signatures make all parents came with kids at 2pm to tell me that they were happy for me to have their kids to have something to do and they are fine on knowing that I am taking pictures of kids only be posted in this blog for my nieces, nephews, relatives and friends worldwide to know where, what and how my life is in Ntwane, South Africa.  

Thus, we did as routine, memorizing the timetable first 
and I had the advanced ones to help younger ones or slower ones to memorize it too.
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Then we continue on to the coloring. 
The bigger kids used the floor as table.....
The younger ones used the benches for it.  All enjoying it well.
There came the birthday for Bonga, my host ma's granddaughter from her son.
She turned three.  Her father visited last weekend. But did not mention today is her birthday.
But called in the evening to said so.  I scrambled to find something for the birthday girl.
I asked to buy her a cake, a day later, while the host ma was going to town to see her niece in the hospital.
Our training was up for the practice teaching on health issues at a secondary school near our cluster of three host homes, and we were the only ones speaking Xitsonga.  The villagers speak Sepedi.
Lucky that kids in school had learned English enough to communicate well with us.
I led a few kids to manage a community map of the village Ntwane, where we are in.
We used the sticky paper for the drafts....
And one "Artist" did the name of the village - Ntwane.....
The few were all busying on coloring......
When it was done, I happened to run into the school Principal.
 And he was pleased with it.
Harrison in another classroom and was helping students on their mathematic for their exam next day.
Look! How concentrated these students were.  
No one paying attention to my walking around the room taking pictures.
Coming back to join the other kids in another classroom, where Maggie was on to the Health topics.
The HIV awareness and prevention.  

And I continued on to my 3R talking that I had started since 2012 while I was a PCV in Zambia, after I came back from my car accident in July 2011.
When young person is getting into a relationship, one must understand a relationship needs mutual respect equally, mutual rewarding equally, and mutual responsibility equally.
The responsibility for oneself always. 
The responsibility for one another right now, for one another in the future and for one another forever.
That is the true love.
The school principal was listening on....
It was a tough topic, on the top of our tough language lessons with the first interview dated next Monday. A tough week all together. 
We were walking home under the pre-storm looking clouds.... but it didn't come. 
The purple flowers had coming on the dried out tree, I called it.... so the tree has been awakening.
The first time I was able to have the peace in mind to take a picture of the morning sun at six-ish.
My host ma, the one in brown top, who is a trailer and said to make me a few Xitsonga traditional dresses.
The above were the Sepedi's traditional dresses, these are for where we are in here, in Ntwane the Sepedi language speaking village.
We will see how my new dresses are to come....

Well, besides we will have language interview on Monday, tomorrow we will have a tour to Pretoria for the culture day event at Gaahomotho.  Sunday everyone of us trainees will to attend a local cultural event that my host family is to take me to a funeral.
So I have better get to taking few notes from today's language lessons and go to bed soon.  
Good night you all.
Cheng  9/22/2023


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