This has got to be the hottest I've ever been in December. Thankfully, the weather has cooled off a bit today because yesterday it was 30 degrees, very sunny and very little wind. Bleaurgh! Because most of the kids are going home this holiday, the Home has x-mas a little early. So there was a lekker party yesterday where some of the kids performed songs and dances they'd prepared, there was a HIV/aids talk from one of the volunteers, and the kids got presents! I'm not entirely sure how the system works and who provides the presents, but some of the kids got LOADS, and others got only one or two. I think one of the supermarket chains provided a lot of presents, or they sponsored the party because they had representatives giving the kids the gifts. I've noticed that whenever there is any sort of event at the Home that gets sponsored by an outside company, they only want pictures of the younger children because they're young and cute which I find infuriating. Also because some of the older children were much more excited to receive their presents. No matter, x-mas is nearly over here now. On Friday most of the kids go home so the Home relaxes a bit. There is the Chirstmas concert on Wednesday which I've been asked to sing at-also performing is Zanne Stapelberg! I was supposed to be singing with one of the the kids who is very very talented, but he's too old for the Home so he had his leaving party last week and he leaves on Wednesday which unfortunately means that he isn't able to sing at the concert, so I need to talk to my boss to see if she still wants me and the other volunteer to sing, hopefully we can!
In other news, as the weather heats up, things start breeding. Things like fleas. Yes I have fleas. Although I am proud to say I was the last person in the room to get them. That counts for something, right? And apart from the bitey bitey fleas I had a mosquito incident last night. I'm on my laptop at about 11pm and I hear the zzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee noise of a mozzie. The noise stops and I do the famous mozzie twitch. The one when you think it's landed on you so you make your whole body spasm to try and scare it off. I ehar the whine again, and this time, it flies in front of my computer screen so I can see it (one of my room-mates is asleep so the light is off) I try to grab it, but I miss. This whole debacle goes on for at least 10/20 minutes. And then, I catch it! Now I know I'm safe from the bitey bitey, itchy itchy, I trun on my ipod and try to go to sleep. Just as I doze off, I hear another zzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. THERE'S TWO OF THE CRITTERS!
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