Long Easter weekend

Now that our third volunteer, Krissi who is going to stay here for three months, arrived we planned as much activities as we could for our Easter weekend. Together with Johanna, another Weltwärts volunteer who has been living here for six months already and who will stay six months more, we stayed at a rich settlement with a porter and a big entrance gate in a big house with a ceiling height of at least FIVE meters (≈ 16 feet) and a decadent shower with a door leading to a balcony which turns it to a walkable outside shower. What an absolute unique experience, showering under the breathtaking starry sky of South Africa. Starting from this base we planed and executed all our trips. I’d say it is best to let the pictures speak for themselves.

First Rover Soccer Workshop

Now, finally the first of four trainer workshops for our Rover (Scouts in the age of 18-25 years) had begun. On the morning of the 4th of April 25 Rovers from the different Scouts districts as well as six youth trainers and two project leaders from Altus Sport arrived at nine o’clock at the scout hall in Mataffin. By the way giant giraffes are holding the roof of the 2010 World Cup stadium that is under construction right now in the background. The first thing that the trainers from Altus Sport did with our Rovers was warming up with standard warming up exercises and traditional dance moves. It is really an exceptional experience to see those traditional dances right before your eyes. Following the warm up topics such as HIV/Aids were playfully built in the training, e.g. there was a little playfield with three areas and the aim of the game was to get the ball from area one to area three. In area two they had to be careful so that the “virus” doesn’t touch their ball. They were shown how easily you can get infected, if you are not careful enough and that you have to protect your “ball” because if you are once infected there is no way back. After every game the Rovers discussed the exercise in-depth in coherence to the topic.