Barbeque and Copy and Paste

Sunday, May 30th
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Today we got up and went to a barbeque place called Mzoli's. It sounded Italian to me but it turns out it's rather African. Tons and TONS and BOATLOADS of people get together under a giant shack to socialize and listen to live music. We got a table with about 12 of the ProjectsAbroad volunteers and sat down to wait for our food. The waiting took 3.5 hours, and that's only because Sebastian bribed the cook with 100 Rand (apparently this is a standard practice) to get the food to come faster. It's understandable, I guess; there were SO many people there. Very crowded, and many people very drunk. Once we got the food, it was great though; literally every type of meat you can imagine: ribs, beef, lamb, chicken.. etc. However, I waited so long, I think I almost passed out from starvation (I hadn't eaten anything all morning, because I thought we'd eat soon when we got to Mzoli's!)

After the food, we danced to the music of a local South African artist. She was good at getting the crowd going, and we were having a great time. However, it was getting dark ( = unsafe) so we called a cab and got out of there. I was very proud that I knew the area well enough to tell the driver how to get to my house. My sense of direction is slightly improving apparently.

I came home so exhausted that I just passed out. 10-11 hours of sleep was totally worth it.

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Monday, May 31st
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Today, I found out my semi-final plan for how my teaching schedule will go. I'll be teaching Aysha's children in the informal settlement for two 3-week programs where I give them an overview of computer skills they need to be competent and valuable in the workplace. I decided to make it a 3-section program; the first being keyboard skills, the second being ms office, the third being windows skills.
So today, I focused on getting them more comfortable with the keyboard; I hearkened back to the days of my old keyboarding teacher, Ms. Clark, in 7th grade, calling out nonsensical strings of characters for the students to type. It was, admittedly, a little dry and uninteresting; however, I believe it was necessary for the students to get a better understanding of the keyboard and to get more comfortable so they didn't have to look down at the keys all the time. My morning class received the lesson very well, while the afternoon class had low attendance, and one student walked out halfway through the lesson because she wasn't interested anymore. Great. Good to know I'm enthralling.

Dinner at home was of course great, and Sebastian took me to the DVD store, so now I'm going to watch some episodes of CSI :)

New volunteer arriving on wednesday, woop woop!