Feli just left this morning, and again, it was a hard goodbye. I started a count and she is the 18th volunteer to leave since I've been here! This is one of the hardest things about this program, you just get to know the volunteers and they leave you!! So she's on her way back home to Germany. We will miss her so much! She has such a giving heart! She volunteered her first two months here at Visshershok Primary School, where she and two others planned their own life skills lessons twice a week for the 6th grade class. These volunteers are just out of high school a
nd they are planning lessons to teach in class! I think it was quite a challenge for them, but they pulled it off, and the kids loved it! Feli also had a heart for a group of "farm kids" that the volunteers have visited off and on for the last few years. Its a small settlement of families who work at the large main farm. They live in pretty poor and unhygienic conditions, but the kids love the volunteers coming out to visit them, its quite a treat! Feli and a couple other vols have taken some of them on several outings, to Table Mountain, the beach and ic
e skating. Feli also bought white t-shirts for all the kids and then showed them how to tie-dye them - such fun! Here are some pics of Feli with a kid at Vissershok, the tie-dye shirts hanging on the line and then Feli with the farm kids in their tie-dyed shirts. For the last month Feli has joined the hospital team that runs the program with the Kangaroo Mums and they volunteer at the pediatric ward. Feli is so creative and fun to be around, she was also very sporty, showing the boys a few moves on the soccer field....I think they were impressed! She will be soooo missed!
Feli just left this morning, and again, it was a hard goodbye. I started a count and she is the 18th volunteer to leave since I've been here! This is one of the hardest things about this program, you just get to know the volunteers and they leave you!! So she's on her way back home to Germany. We will miss her so much! She has such a giving heart! She volunteered her first two months here at Visshershok Primary School, where she and two others planned their own life skills lessons twice a week for the 6th grade class. These volunteers are just out of high school a
nd they are planning lessons to teach in class! I think it was quite a challenge for them, but they pulled it off, and the kids loved it! Feli also had a heart for a group of "farm kids" that the volunteers have visited off and on for the last few years. Its a small settlement of families who work at the large main farm. They live in pretty poor and unhygienic conditions, but the kids love the volunteers coming out to visit them, its quite a treat! Feli and a couple other vols have taken some of them on several outings, to Table Mountain, the beach and ic
e skating. Feli also bought white t-shirts for all the kids and then showed them how to tie-dye them - such fun! Here are some pics of Feli with a kid at Vissershok, the tie-dye shirts hanging on the line and then Feli with the farm kids in their tie-dyed shirts. For the last month Feli has joined the hospital team that runs the program with the Kangaroo Mums and they volunteer at the pediatric ward. Feli is so creative and fun to be around, she was also very sporty, showing the boys a few moves on the soccer field....I think they were impressed! She will be soooo missed!
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