Visit to a traditional Zulu Village

Yesterday it rained all day so we did not go to the beach as planned. We stayed around the house and went to a couple of stores. Not an eventful day.

Today, we attended church where the girls will go to school. It is called Hillside Church. It is a nice church. It’s a non-denominational type of church, very similar to New Life. The music is very modern and the worship group is young (again like NLC). The girls enjoyed it but were a little rowdy as usual. Tammy, the girl who has been watching them for the past two weeks, was there. We sat with Gavin and Kirsty and their family. Kirsty is an identical twin and the girls call her the twin mamma. They have met her twin sister.

After church, I took the girls to see some typical Zulu dancing in a small Zulu village. They loved it. There was a little “brown kiddo” there and they wanted to take her home with us. She was very cute. They kept holding her hand. And they didn’t want to leave the village and the people there did not want them to leave either! They were a hit!

Anyway, they got to go into a Zulu hut and see how dark it is and they wanted to know why there were no lights. They say the kitchen and how they cook on the ground. Sofia said it smelled like smoke in the boma (house). And then there was a performance. There were the Zulu warriors dancing and then they talked about their marriage traditions. There were the fortune tellers (with their bodies and face painted white). One of the girls did not have a shirt on and Sofia thought that was interesting. She said it was because it was hot so she didn’t have any clothes on top. The traditional dancing that the Zulu girls/young women do entails no tops being worn. It was really interesting for them to see. They took right up with the people and let the “warriors” hold them and have their picture taken. I will post most of pictures on Facebook tonight. I have posted a few here. Sienna and Sofia love to say the words they know in Zulu to the locals! They say “hello”, “how are you”, “I’m good” and “thank you”.

Our housekeeper came on Friday. Her name is Mavis. She is good. She really likes the girls, too. She will probably come and help out around the house 3 times a week. She arrives at 7 and leaves at 3:30. I pay her $14 a day. Not much at all. She has a little 5 month old boy. I am going to try and buy her some things for him as I can.

Sofia told me yesterday that when she gets big she is going to help street kids. She worries about the kids she sees who don’t have much. She said she is going to give them a house. And Sienna said that when she gets big she is going to work with me and give people pasta and lights in their houses.