Dayle here. Today we met our other Sponsor Child, Thubelihle.
We came to her school to pick her up and everyone crowded around us, amazed. I don’t
think they had seen very many white people before. Everyone was also acting a little sad. Apparently,
yesterday one of their second graders had died after a short illness. They were preparing their singing for the funeral
and we got to hear their beautiful hopeful songs .We got to see Thubelihle’s
teacher teach a lesson about Fire. Thubelihle was really good at answering the
questions. After that we gave all of them hive fives and we took Thubelihle to
her house by car. She didn’t seem like she was used to being in a car. When we
got to her home, we got to meet her mom, aunt and great grandpa. They were all
pretty excited to see us and I definitely was excited to see them.JJJJ She ended up loving the gifts we gave her. She
gave the baby doll to her little sister and she started carrying it on her back
just like all the mamas do here. Later, they actually tied it on her back and
every time it fell down, she would stop what she was doing, and push it back
up. It was really cute. It was really fun to see the scripture notes we had
sent to her taped to the wall in her hut!!
Thubelihle also showed us her maze grinder. We all got to try it. It was
super fun. I was a pro. Another thing that happened was that her Great Grandpa’s
cows just wondered through the backyard. They were huge and there were a lot of
them. At the end, we gave lots of hugs and no one
wanted to leave. I loved meeting Thubelihle.
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