Our day began with breakfast at 8:00 am and then we headed to the Leratong Community Center to continue working on creating a new shade garden. To complete this, we have to pickaxe a mound of dirt and shovel the dirt into wheelbarrows to transport to the giant pit where the garden will be. We also had to get lots of leaves and shovel manure in the pit. Most days we work from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm and then break for lunch. After lunch, we went back to the community center to play with the kids. I played soccer with a few of the kids while other people had their hair done by many of the Basotho girls. Another group of people played frisbee with the kids. Before we left the community center, everyone participated in a Zumba dance led by one of the older service girls at the community center. After our time at the community center, we came back to the trading post and some people went to see the dinosaur footprint, while others stayed behind. I played soccer with some kids outside the gate of the trading post until dark. Tomorrow we will go back to the community center and hopefully finish spreading and laying dirt. Today we also learned that we will be meeting with the King of Lesotho on Tuesday. We are all extremely excited for that and for the hike on Sunday.
P.S. Mom and Dad and Kristen, I hope you guys are doing well and I love you all!
Signing off,
-Alex