First Weekend with Homestay Family

So the first weekend was great. Mama had to work both days from 12-8. Saturday I got up around 7:45am and Mama made eggs and steak and made me eat two pieces of bread. She was angry I didn't take more though. We watched some cartoons while we ate. The two boys are obsessed with Cartoon Network so thats basically all we watch haha, yes they are 15 and 17. Saturday was Andile's birthday he turned 15 so I paid for his taxi fare to go to the mall with me. We went with 4 other girls and their siblings..all younger. It was sooo much work to take these little kids around the mall oh my gosh I was exhausted. But they are all very aware of their surroundings. They knew what taxi we had to take and where we needed to go.

At the mall we ate hamburgers which are wayyy different than in the U.S. they are paper then look like veggie burgers and are spicy. They will probably not be my first choice next time. Then we had ice cream and we took then to the arcade in the mall. I paid for most of Andile's things but I made it clear it was strictly for his birthday. They didn't do anything for his birthday, they hardly recognize it so I felt bad. I also went to Pick N Pay which is their grocery store and bought the items to make chocolate chip pancakes.

Thats about it for Saturday..but Sunday morning I got up and made everyone chocolate chip pancakes which was a big hit or flapjacks as they call it. I think I'm in with the family now. Then I went to Sarah's house who lives right behind me with Mama Ruby to study some Zulu. The girls next door were helping us learn the body parts and helping us create a song. Some of the other American girls came by and asked if we wanted to go to the beach so of course we did. I left Andile and Siyanda a note because they were out playing with their friends and Mama Nano set up a taxi for us to go into Durban and go to the beach. The beach was funn more on the beach later perhaps but we stayed for 3 hours or so just about 10 of us girls.

Oh in lecture on Friday the guy who was our lecturer made us sing In the Jungle again and taught us what the aweeeeee oh awweeeeeee umbabuwe meant. The imbubwe means lion and the aweeeee is suppose to be a train sound. There is a whole story behind it but its too long. Anyway just one more incounter with The Lion King its great!

And my brother says I look like Fergie..whattt!