Sundowners

Sundowners are one of our (‘us’ being the Tses volunteers) favourite ways to spend the evening. On days when I don’t have evening study to supervise/help out at, it’s really great to take a long walk out to the sand dunes and drink a beer with the other volunteers.

The thing we realized, though, is that the kids never get to do this. Especially the hostel kids don’t get the time out of the blocks, and the kids who are from Tses don’t really see the point or don’t have someone to go with.

So one of the new German volunteers, Carolin, who is here for just a few months to help out at the school, and I decided it was time to remedy this. It’s easier now that we are two at St. Therese. We took a group of about 30 learners from the athletics (track) team out of evening study one night as a ‘teambuilding’ activity, and took them to the dunes for a sundowner.

It was absolutely incredible to see them playing, scuffling around, enjoying themselves with no worries for a change! Even if it was only for one night, we all really enjoyed ourselves. (And were thoroughly exhausted afterwards.)