A hectic few weeks

Time is going very quickly, have almost been here a month! The last few weeks have been busy and challenging in a good way! Been staying in a place called Mitchell Plain with Craig and Allison which has been really good, but its already time to move again on Sunday! Going to a family, Sharon and Seun and their two daughters. Am getting to see all sides of Cape Town which is brilliant!

Working at the centre has been good. Started counselling a few people now which is very challenging at times but starting to build up a relationships so thats good. Also been visiting a school in Kewtown twice a week, every tues and thurs. Its a primary school in quite a deprived area, the pupils get referred to us by their teachers for many reasons, but mainly due to desruptive behaviour. The centre also has a good relationship with the school across the road in Bridgetown which is a high school. We mainly work with the young females there who again have been referred to us by the school. We took the girls out on an outing last week to a museum, which they really enjoyed, I think the girls were better behaved than us leaders, lol!

Doing some psychology training with the guys at the centre on fridays so thats good. A lot of the guys who work at the centre and help counsel come from backgrounds of drug addiction and abuse themselves so am learning a lot from them as well. God has really been challenging me on how my psychological knowledge and background can work alongside spiritual elements...still working on that at the mo!

We also celebrated mothers day here on Sunday which was amazing. The church loves to honour people and as part of the service the male leaders washed the senior ladies' feet. They take honouring very seriously and have a lot of respect for elder members of the church, to the point where the pastor commented that he would ask people to leave the church if they spoke during the feet washing - was a very powerful statement!

Im really looking forward to the weekend, lots happening! Glory revolution is starting up this friday night, which is part of the campus ministry at the uni, this has recently been started up due to a request from the students. A workshop is running on Sat for women, its based on a book called 'Woman, thou art loosed', which is around freeing women from their pasts, particulary around abuse and insecurities. This is something I may get involved in at some point. Then on Sunday we have our church service in the morning, followed by 'God encounter' in the evening which is a youth event! Should be a hectic weekend!

Weather is getting colder as winter is now setting in, so there has been lots of rain this week! Cant believe its so hot in the UK!! Am still missing the UK a lot!! Will give another update soon x