To The North And To The West Of Metz.. You Have Ga-Seleka

A couple of weeks ago I had a chance to go visit my dear friends and fellow volunteers, Thato and Boipelo Seleka (Paul and Jess) who live in the lovely village of Ga-Seleka with Safiri, the cat. Who's down for a few days of good food, good conversation, good people, nights spent in the mission house of the Dutch Reform Church, touching big baobabs, visits to the primary schools, girls' club fun, and checking out Seleka sites? Me.

Over the weekend we cut apron kits for their Girls' Club Apron Project and so the girls from club could sew their own.

We ate lunches of hummus, pita, tomatoes, and cucumber... treats we brought back from Pretoria. And Paul treated us to his mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe from home... cookies made from chocolate chips from AMERICA!

And we drank wine.

Morning prayer at the lower primary school.

There is NOTHING like standing in front of hundreds of school children in time for afternoon prayer. Pretty amazing to hear them speaking altogether.

The girls' club craft was making "Bohemian" necklaces that Jess and I tried out on Sunday afternoon.

Mma Seleka, one of the Grade 7 teachers and a girls' club leader (club meets in her room every Monday) and Mmapula.

Here's Jess with her girls' club student council girls.

Paul played baseball with some of the neighborhood boys on my last night... then we built a fire in the yard and sat and talked over supper while watching the logs burn down.

With coffee in go cups Jess and Paul walked me to the taxi that was going to take me to their shopping town... the start of my travels back to the village.
Woo! It was a good visit! Paul and Jess have a lot going on when it comes to helping out the schools they were placed with. Paul is running computer classes for some teachers twice a week, Jess is doing the prep work for girls' club and keeping on top of all the apron sales, and they also have to balance visiting with all the people they've befriended during their time in Seleka. Did I mention that on top of all that, they're good friends? They're good friends.