Hey everyone!  Sadly, our time here in Roma at Thorn’s is ending!  Tomorrow at 8 am we begin the 2 day drive north to Kruger National Park to go on a safari.  We will be going on morning, all day, and night game drives!  Hopefully we will be able to see the big 5!

The past couple of days we split into 2 groups.  One went to a farm run by Lesotho Save the Children.  Starting in August, the farm will be used to offer teenage orphans a place to learn technical skills that will help them later in life.  When we showed up, the place looked overgrown and in shambles.  Throughout the day we weeded beds, pathways, and houses.  By the end of the day the place looked completely different!

The other group traveled to a village just outside of the town of Morija to construct a playground and do some painting.  As we were building, the community and school kids came out to help carry pieces of the playground, help find rocks for cement, and inspect the paint job. On Thursday afternoon we had a HUGE soccer match against the local high school team.  It was a hard fought battle that ended in a 0-0 tie (the other team was offsides a lot)!  We were pretty proud of ourselves!  The village ’soccer moms’ came out and spent the entire match chanting and singing.  It was a great experience to play such a universal game and in such a beautiful setting (a field surrounded by mountains!)

Well, thanks for reading!  hope you enjoyed our adventures for this trip!  In another week a whole new adventure will start when Trip 2 arrives!  Keep reading to hear more stories and see more pictures!

– Jon and Sarah J.

We will miss these beautiful faces!

And we will miss the fascinating landscape!