The home is finally open!!!!!! :) (Week 41)

This week was crazy, trying to get everything ready to move into the home on Saturday. We bought the last of the furniture we needed. I got some strong men to help me move the furniture around the home to where it was to go and bought food for the home. Saturday after lunch, I picked up Ayanda from Mangwaneni and then the two girls, Nonhlanhla and Sindisiwe, from McCorkindales, (I had shared at in a previous blog around Christmas time about some orphans that had been found, these two girls were apart of that family). We arrived in the home and got settled in and found out that we had no electricity because of work being done on the electrical lines. I'm told by Ayanda that I need to share this story...Since we had no electricity we had to use candles and we put them on plates by putting wax on the bottom and sticking the candle to the plate. So, it was stuck there for awhile, sitting on top of my dresser, when I opened my drawer and it fell over onto the rope I had laying there and I quickly blew it out but according to Ayanda I should have picked it up so that the candle wouldn't have to be lit again. (Ayanda thinks I'm a baby because I did this!) So it was a very nice evening, we had rice and fish for dinner. Then, headed off to our rooms. I had a very interesting night. Within an hour or so I had 4 cockroaches in my room that I had to find and kill!!!! Because I have linoleum flooring it sounded like there were mice in my room! Not a very fun time! But after killing them I was able to sleep just fine!

It will be exciting to see how things continue to go at the home. Today, Sunday, we moved in another girl, Tenele and her baby, Lucia. And, later on today we will add another girl, Dlalisile, who was apart of a scandal with her former high school principal. He was sleeping with the girls who couldn't pay for their school fees.

I'm excited to be in the home but anxious because I only have 7 weeks left! I'm actually kind of freaking out! It will definitely be an adjustment living in the home and not always having my own space, which I am used too. I am needing to learn to set some boundaries. So, it will be a growing and exciting next few weeks before I head home. Continued prayers as the girls, the house mother, and myself learn to live with each other would be much appreciated!