Hello!

    I am in Swaziland at the moment - we have been here since last Wednesday and today is our day off (every Friday we have a free day!) We have been doing loads of stuff here our usual schedule looks like this:

-Breakfast at 8 am

-Quiet time from 8:30 - 9:30

-Sessions from 10:00 - 12:00 pm (We learn a new topic every week, this week is learning who I am in Christ, last week was surrender)

-Lunch at 12:00 - 1:00pm

-Ministry 1:00 - 5:00pm

-Free time from 5:00 - 7:00pm

-Dinner at 7:00pm

-Another session at 8:00pm

-Lights out by 11:00 pm

The first day of ministry my group went to a squatter camp (which is a lot like the townships in South Africa) but the squatter camps are places where people live illegally and don't own the land. There is a place right on the edge of the camp, right outside the dump called the ‘Tree Line' which is a place where families send their young daughters to prostitute to older men for very little money or maybe a piece of rotten fruit, and these girls are usually very young- as young as about four or five years old. The next day my group went to the hospital where we just visited the patients and kept them company- it was a little fustrating because the language barrier but I know they just enjoyed someone being there with them. A lot of the patients either have AIDS or TB which is caused by AIDS. The next day my group went to a carepoint where they feed a lot of orphans or just kids who don't get a lot of food at home. There are so many orphans and it breaks my heart some as young as six or seven living on the their own and caring for a younger sibling as well.