One of the most capturing things about going on a workcamp is to hear about other people life histories. On a workcamp you really get close to the people living in the country. If you go on a vacation you mostly see the hotel and the beaches and not learn about the culture. When working as a volunteer you get to know yourself and turn into a more understanding person. With that we mean that meeting people with such a different and interesting wiew on life make you grow as a person.
Yesterday we were doing the potatogarden with Fatima. She is a that kind of person you want to hear everything about. She has a mysterious way of giving you small glimpses of her life and not keep talking about it. She told us that you should do what you really want in life and be strong if it’s hard to hold on to your passion. Fatimas passion is to write and when she does that she is happy!
There is so many exciting stories that people here sharing to us. And as Fatima said; some day we will forget her name and face. But we will never forget these important things she shared with us.
And for us that is what a workcamp really is; sharing cultures with each other and explore yourself.
Hi it’s me Carol the South-African camp leader. I am so grateful for this wonderful opportunity, to be part of such a great experience to share talent, ideas, passions and friendships. The workcamp is really progressing, and the adventure playground is nearly complete. The food garden is also taking shape we have been planting our vegetables(seedlings) and also our potato patches. It’s been really great. Today was such a special day because all of the volunteers went out to Cape Point for an outing and also to see the penguins at Boulders Beach. We had a wonderful time and the international volunteers really enjoyed the scenery and the baboons. I must say i am honoured to be part of this magnificent group.
it is nice to do something for the community very tiring so far so good
hope the community will make use of all that is there for them
it will make me feel good to look back at all my hard work
i did enjoy the work camp
Hey my name is Mary and i’m one of the volenteers at the workcamp.My experience so far has been Fantastic! It was great meeting all the international participants.Its great working with so many different people and learning about them. Alot of new friendships has blossemed over this past week and i think its awesome! I hope to be involve in more similar projects (and by the way its my first time blogging ha ha ha) Well its been nice blogging see ya!
Hey guys im back.Our project is coming along splendidly and i cant wait for the end result.The volenteers are all really puttin an effort into this project.We just finished lunch now and i hope that we have enough energy for what lays ahead for the rest of the day.Workcamp has really been an experience for me so far and i hope to be apart of future projects.Good blogging chat again soon.
Last weekend we had a great time and we just want to tell you all about the party which we went to. We don’t know the names of the people that we were invited to but we had a good time! Tony from Mothers Unite had to babysit us the whole evening to make sure we were fine, but he didn’t mind!
The food was amazing. A buffe’ of different kind of salads, chips and bread with scrambled eggs on it. And boerewors roll, beef-sausages..!
The couple who lived there had made a fire in the garden and we were all sitting around the fire enjoying ourselfs. In the house the music was playing loud with open doors but the neighbours didn’t mind. In Sweden the so called “storningsjouren” would have come after an hour…!
We danced to the music in the house and the whole family were happily watching us and amazed by our style of dancing, which is very different apperantly to the local custom. (I don’t know if that is an insult or a compliment…! hm hm!)
anyway.
We had a great time!
Now it’s time to go back to work! We are still digging in the food garden
This is Sunniva and Tony building on the adventure playground. We are building a house with climbingwalls on it and a swing. It’s a lot of fun! This is Siri also working on the adventure playground. We are going to have such big mucels when we get home after these three weeks! Talking about muscels! Drilling together the tires is really hard work. On the picture to the left Jasmine and Gracie. And this day we had all the children there. We played the Swedish game “Bjornen sover” with them It was really fun because they were so happy and playfull! We also did some “clap games” that the kids use to play!
Today all the internationell volunteers, mrs Pattinson and Michelle met at nine a clock at the center. Because it’s sunday people here go to church. They were singing and praying at the center. We went in to the center and watched. We thought it looked nice that they did something together and was so happy. After that we “tryckte ihop oss” in two cars and went to the Table Mountain! Wopah! We enjoyed the hike a lot but it was exhausting! The wiew from the top was really beautiful! You could see all over the city and sea.
In the evening we played domino with my hostfamily. It was really fun. Elize has skills in domino! They also showed me a picture on top of a puzzle box with a city and asked if it was Sweden because it said so on the box but it wasn’t! It was a Switzerland flag in the picture and it didn’t looked like Sweden. That was so funny that the company that did the puzzle got it all wrong!
This day was so nice like all days is here. We don’t ever wanna go home
Goodnight= godnatt (in Swedish)
Andrea and Siri
Hi it’s me again one of the camp leaders. I promise to come back to you and here i am. Yes! it’s Saterday the last day of the first week of our workcamp. What an awesome week we had getting to know each other and sharing ideas, this week has been a very challaging week as all the foundations of all the projects has been done which was very hard work but i must say with everybody pulling up their sleeves and participating with much eager and enthusihiasm , has made it much easier.I’m realy looking forward for next week because we can see progession.
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Carol drilling the tires
