South Africa!!

Hello everyone!
I am here in South Africa at last! After a very long flight to England with the man beside me blasting techno music while holding his crying baby the whole way I finally made it to London. Then after a day well spent in London I hopped on another plane to Johannesburg
(Joburg as everyone here calls it)and that flight was much better than the first. There was a really sweet South African girl a few years older than myself who was sitting beside me so we chatted for hours which helped pass the time. It is Thursday here and we have spent the past few days getting organized and learning how the orphanage is run. The kids are all amazing and even though many of them have lost both their parents to AIDS they still are so kind and loving and are always laughing and singing. They all take care of each other and the moto of Agape is "We Are Together". Yesterday was a rather hard day because the manager of Agape, Pam, sat us down and told us the story of how Agape came to be and how some of the orphans arrived there. The stories were heartbreaking but being able to see how much Agape has helped them all was really nice. Almost all of the other volunteers here are Dutch so I'm picking it up really quickly although the Zulu on the other hand is much harder to learn. Zulu is the native language of the area and it involves a series of clicks which all mean very different things but sound exactly the same to me haha. Some of the children's names have clicks in them too which makes them very difficult to pronounce but we are all trying any way.My internet time is quickly running out so I must go now. Sorry for the lack of updates but it has been hard to find the time to go on the internet lately because we have all been so busy! Thanks for reading though and I promise I'll do the best I can with updating more often!

I hope you are all well!
xoxo
Margo

p.s Take a look at some of the other volunteers weblogs because they already uploaded some photos

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