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Thursday, 14 January 2010

Swaziland - Sunday..."That's what the tunnel does..."

Sunday was a great day of getting to know people and the area better! We went to Church (being now up at Chinda, where we are all staying, and at 10am - rather than down in the Community Chapel and at 4pm in the afternoon) and it was pretty similar to the night before. More white people but still majority black, lots of singing and wonderful noises. Pastor Rolly's wife Kathy shared something she had been learning. It was very intrieged to see a woman at the front, that doesn't normally happen in this community!

After Church, a small group of us went for a walk through a 1km Tunnel. This sounds pretty weird, and it was! We had to use a landrover and quad to get there. And we walked through this man-made tunnel, where a rushing river ran down...in PITCH BLACK! It was the most bizarre thing ever. For most of it, I walked by myself. BIG MISTAKE! My imagination was playing tricks on me in the darkness! I couldn't believe it when I'd heard they'd taken 70 kids through here on a school trip! But it was fun. At the end, we had these crazy steep steps to walk up, with gushing water pouring down them. It was so slippery and the stone steps had been worn away, so it was hard to find footholds. But we made it! (check out the photos below)





We had a roast dinner in the evening, which was so exciting! And then Sian and I went to meet the YWAM team up at the view point, where they were having a bonfire. This place is beautiful. It is through the forest and you have an amazing view into South Africa. We played guitars, talked, and ate marshmallows. It was so lush. In the end, it was just Sian and I, and Elyse and Olivia (two YWAM-ers) who were left. And we decided to sleep out under the stars! It was beautiful. But we were wet in the morning haha. We slept under a literal blanket of stars. Amazing. So many shooting stars too.

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