beauty in pictures

Auntie Amy from England starred on the pre-school wall of fame as one of the very first pictures Josh has ever drawn.

 Spitting image, just needed a hat!

Academy Camp

The high school students went to a leadership camp at the beautiful Shongweni Dam reserve, just a few minutes from Durban. They spent 48 hours fitting in an amazing array of activities including an assault course, abseiling, jumping into the reservoir from the dam wall, rock climbing, raft races and more...

Here are a few pictures of the kids at play and the stunning scenery:

Tommy.

the chameleon

The kids here keep finding a chameleon, they have marked his tail and so have now confirmed that it is the same one that we keep seeing. Tommy has taken some photos of him:

Student life programme

For a few weeks Tommy's Friday afternoons have involved watching kids light fires, put up tents, cook camp food and the like as part of the outdoor skills option of the student life programme. Some of the kids had their first camp out one weekend to put the skills to use. The idea of the Friday afternoons is to give them opportunity to do things they wouldn't otherwise get to do and a mixture of Academy staff and other crew are roped in to share their skills. Other students were able to learn dressmaking, vehicle mechanics and cheerleading.

Some pictures are on:
http://palmersabroad.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/student-life-program/ 
http://jacobsenjourneys.blogspot.com/2010/10/student-life-program.html

The next sessions being offered currently are cooking, photography, gardening and being a good neighbour (which is continuing to help paint a parsonage at the local church amongst other practical projects from what I understand).

shipyard blog

You can check out the progress of the shipyard phase here:

http://powerthevision.blogspot.com/

We're glad to be away right now looking at the photos, but really miss our home! Please keep praying for the shipyard work to continue well and to be completed on time so that we can move back in the new year!