This is one in a series of posts from the six Kentuckians volunteering at the first ever overseas Reading Camp this year in Grahamstown, South Africa. Bishop Stacy Sauls, Ginger Sauls (teacher), Mary Jane Amick (nurse), and three counselors (Drew Eclov, Connor Egan, and Vibh Forsythe) have joined the South Africans on the Reading Camp team for an overnight camp at the Assegaai Trails Conference Center.
As you all are snoring in the US, there is a beautiful brilliant sun shining over the Monastery, not a cloud in the sky, and a breeze that is cool but wonderfully refreshing. There's another transformation in that instead of the usual wonderful quiet here there is now a bustle of activity with boxes being loaded into the "Bakkie" (pick up truck) and Brothers and volunteers moving quickly about carrying all our materials.
Our counselor volunteers spent the night in town with Kary's daughter Katherine and went out for an evening of Festival music and meeting her friends. They're due to arrive back momentarily and then we're off to Assegaai Trails for a day of decorating, setting up learning stations and an infirmary and then, this evening, a dinner for all with delicacies off the "barbie."
Tomorrow morning Kary and I head out in one bus and and Basil and Ntombekaya in another to gather all the children from their homes in the townships and head out to Assegaai for the "Grand Opening."
The energy and excitement are flowing and we ask for all to keep us and the children in your thoughts and prayers this week. We will report in as possible on all the adventures ahead.
Gotta go! We're on Africa time and I'm being told it's time to move!
-Volunteer Mary Jane Amick is a nurse from St. Martha's Episcopal Church in Lexington, KY who is a part of the South African Reading Camp staff
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