Adventure Time: My life is like..

This one’s more for my friends and family at home who might want to know what I do with my life here in Port Elizabeth so I’ve decided to go day by day and update everyone on what my life looks like on each day. Let us begin with what I consider as the start of the week which is Monday.

Mondays at the moment are my free day. I spend this day sleeping in, going for a jog, writing up reports or lessons, shopping...etc Mondays are also usually meeting days for the Baha’i Society at NMMU so I also end up travelling to the university for those sort of things as well.

Tuesdays are my favourite day of the week because that’s when the Rockstars get together. This is our weekly Junior Youth Group at Kuyga school with 40+ participants. This week there was a total of 62 participants including the animators. That’s because on Monday I went to the school and talked to the grade 8 kids about Junior Youth Group and how we need more animators, 21 kids put their hands up to become animators and 17 of those kids attended the Junior Youth Group to get a feel for it and help out. The Rockstars also have their own song and this week they had all gathered in the classroom before we got there and were singing the song together. As we approached the room we could hear this choir of 10-15 year old voices all singing their song, some showing off their dance moves, in anticipation of our arrival. It was such a successful session. We started at 1pm and went till 4pm.

After our jy group Bayan and I go and visit Aziz who is a pioneer from Kenya. He is also a teacher but works at a different school and we are hopefully going to start Ruhi Book 1 with some of the students from his school on Tuesday afternoons as well.

Tuesday nights we have a weekly devotional at my house.

Wednesdays see me temporarily changing residence to another Baha’i family’s home, the Anvaris. First off at 2pm I have a Book 1 with 3 boys from the university, Ndaba, Sanda and Zuko who are friends of some of the Baha’is at the uni. Then I head over to the Anvari’s where I do Baha’i classes with Anise(11years). I spend the night at their place until...

Thursday where I go to the university to prepare for the Baha’i Society’s weekly deepening session and after attending that deepening I spend the night with the youth who live near the university. Also if you read my post called the Basement Project you would know that every second Thursday I go to an open mic event for poetry, hiphop, rap, music and any other type of arts you can think of.

Fridays we have our weekly devotional gathering at the university and the Baha’i society meets to plan future events and things.

Saturdays are also quite hectic and spent almost entirely in Kuyga. I tutor a book 1 at 11.30am then another book 1 at 1pm and try and squish a book 4 somewhere in this day also.

Sundays the community hosts a weekly devotional/deepening which we attend. Generally over the weekends as well I go out with the youth.

So there you have it that’s what my life looks like. Soon there will be an additional book 1 which will include our new Baha’i Basil as well as some friends of the Anvaris and Monday night yoga sessions with a wonderful lady named Aunty Shanty who teaches yoga for free as a service to the community.

PHOTO TIME!!

One of our many fruitful Baha'i Society meetings..