Hey Everybody!!!
My team and I made it safely to Swaziland! We are staying on a homestead in a town called Timbutini in Manzini. Swaziland is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. It is not at all what I was expecting Africa to look like. So far the Swazi people have been very welcoming. The first day that we were in Swaziland a few of us went down to a care point that is down the road from our homestead. We played with the kids for a little whil and we talked to the gogos (grandmothers). It was a lot of fun learning more about the culture and the care points we are going to be working with. The Gogos also gave us Si-Swati names. Mine is Togo which means happy. Our homestead consists of a few different buildings. The girls are staying in a hut and we are blessed with bunk beds and mattresses. Then there is a building that has our kitchen living area and the boys’ room. We are staying with a man named Lelo and his Grandmother gogo Shongwe. We have learned to take bucket showers and to cook and clean with no running water. Our bathrooms are basically little sheds over a hole in the ground. The way we are living is definitely different for most of us but we are enjoying it!
