Today was a great day. I decided that since we are in a
school break that I wanted to give the girls at the care point a game day. I
have no idea what Swazi teenage girls like to do so I brought with me some card
games. I grew up in a family of nine children and my dad always seemed to pick
the house at the edge of town where no one my age lived or we lived on a bust
street and therefore it wasn't safe to play in the road. So we played a lot of
board games and card games in my home.

 

 I taught the girl
Skip Bo, Phase Ten, and a good old fashion game of war. I had candy bar prizes
for the winners. Not a single one of them ever played any of these game before
and trying explain without a translator for 2 of the three games was difficult,
eventually I was able to go around to each group and teach the game. My
translator got stuck on the first game and decided not to even figure out the
other two.

 

 

I painted all the girls nails for a special treat, they are
not allowed to wear nail polish in school, but during break it's no problem.
They have 3 weeks for it to wear off :)

I brought my laptop

 

After all the games and prizes we watched the movie Princess
Diary. Swaziland
is a monarchy and so even though it was in English they got a lot of it. They
really enjoy the main character's klutziness too.

 

During the movie they got to snack on cheese puffs (Jax) and
I brought along some orange juice to drink.