Hello everyone
I have just returned from an incredible experience at Riviersonderend. The MylifE5 are now locals and Phil has become the MylifE6 - he is now one of the Irish!!!!!
The weather has been very challenging and on Friday the guys were working in freezing conditions with hail sleeting down on their faces - mountains full of snow -lotsa mud and they just carried on.
When I got there on Saturday morning, James Wilson was doing lunch and making sure the guys were all taken care of - the children from the community joined us to fill sandbags and eventually the Tee Pee was ready for the canvas covering and then of course, it started pouring again - so this will be fullfilled today.
The guys have taken on another project aswell, they are now building the childrens playpark. They have done all the designs and will be buying the materials aswell!!!!
If you register on www.facebook.com and go to my Profile - Linzi Thomas - you will see a minute by minute account of the progress and the guys!!!!
Lotsa love
Linzi
Monday, July 30, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Day 2 - Riviersonderend and a lot achieved
Hello from a stormy and wet Cape Town..., I have a report back from a very tired Phillip Carlisle, makes me giggle...he is so tired and say's the guys worked so hard to day that they are going to be stiff tomorrow. I also have a report back from Ed, they were in the car on the way back to base camp. He asked me to report back to you all and send love from all the guys - who have no internet.
They had a meet and greet with the community last night and were treated to a Riviersonderend braai, it is quite and experience and you will never taste anything as good as the meat and hospitality they serve. They then did a walk through the "shanty town" and Phil says they have some amazing footage. Then home to their Tee Pees in Caledon.
Up at 07h00 this morning and it is icy cold and raining, can you imagine Phil trying to get himself and all of the guys into the car, I can hear in his voice that he was challenged. They drove from Caledon to RSE and started digging the trenches, sawed down alien vegetation (for the Tee Pee poles) and then dug 16 holes for the poles to go into. Phil tells me his landrover was also challenged with all the poles then been lugged back to the site. They then took the bark off the alien poles and dug the hole for the fireplace.
They were back and forward to the hardware and Ed wanted you to know that the money raised has gone to many items, they bought cement today and the community has donated the cement mixer, which arrives on site tomorrow. They also bought 1000 sandbags and the sand also arrives tomorrow - 1000 bags filled with sand!!!Two of the men from the community were hired today and paid R600 for their "hard labour". They also lay the floor tomorrow.
They are all in Greyton right now eating dinner and off to bed. Phil says it is freezing - can't wait, I am going down on Saturday morning, going to walk around in my wetsuit and flippers!!!!The Guys we are working with on the Joint Venture with RSE arrive on site tomorrow - I am very excited for the guys because they will meet Harold who works with the kids in our communites and is very high up in the Army.....he's a legend!!!
Signing off for now, your guys are safe and sound and very busy!!!!xx
They had a meet and greet with the community last night and were treated to a Riviersonderend braai, it is quite and experience and you will never taste anything as good as the meat and hospitality they serve. They then did a walk through the "shanty town" and Phil says they have some amazing footage. Then home to their Tee Pees in Caledon.
Up at 07h00 this morning and it is icy cold and raining, can you imagine Phil trying to get himself and all of the guys into the car, I can hear in his voice that he was challenged. They drove from Caledon to RSE and started digging the trenches, sawed down alien vegetation (for the Tee Pee poles) and then dug 16 holes for the poles to go into. Phil tells me his landrover was also challenged with all the poles then been lugged back to the site. They then took the bark off the alien poles and dug the hole for the fireplace.
They were back and forward to the hardware and Ed wanted you to know that the money raised has gone to many items, they bought cement today and the community has donated the cement mixer, which arrives on site tomorrow. They also bought 1000 sandbags and the sand also arrives tomorrow - 1000 bags filled with sand!!!Two of the men from the community were hired today and paid R600 for their "hard labour". They also lay the floor tomorrow.
They are all in Greyton right now eating dinner and off to bed. Phil says it is freezing - can't wait, I am going down on Saturday morning, going to walk around in my wetsuit and flippers!!!!The Guys we are working with on the Joint Venture with RSE arrive on site tomorrow - I am very excited for the guys because they will meet Harold who works with the kids in our communites and is very high up in the Army.....he's a legend!!!
Signing off for now, your guys are safe and sound and very busy!!!!xx
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The Guys are in Riviersonderend
Linzi here, just updating you because I know that by now the guys will be so tired after their hectic schedule. We all went to the Tottenham Hotspurs vs Orlando Pirates game at Newlands last night, it was fantastic!!!!Cape Town has been hit by a cold front and rain was 100% predicted!!!Before we left for the game, their was a huge rainbow in the sky and for 90 minutes, not a drop of rain - and then it poured.
We forgot to eat, so I got a call from Ed, very late last night, to say is there any food they could eat. It was hysterical, they found frozen chicken in the fridge, made a pasta with Chaka Laka sauce and according to Ed, they were very proud of their creation.
I am so humbled by all the guys, to see them in our offices teaching the MylifE Pioneers the computer, the guitar, life.......the was it is supposed to be.
They all met with James Wilson for breakfast this morning and then at 11h00 departed for Riviersonderend, in Phil's landy - WITH THE IRISH FLAG FLYING OUT THE WINDOW, was hysterical, they will update you with the pictures!!!!
They have brought us so much fun and energy and tomorrow they make history!!!!They will be putting the first structure up at RSE - The Tee Pee!!!I go down to RSE on Friday!!!!
Lotsa love to everyone following this Blog! You can be very proud of the MylifE 5!!!!!
Linzi
We forgot to eat, so I got a call from Ed, very late last night, to say is there any food they could eat. It was hysterical, they found frozen chicken in the fridge, made a pasta with Chaka Laka sauce and according to Ed, they were very proud of their creation.
I am so humbled by all the guys, to see them in our offices teaching the MylifE Pioneers the computer, the guitar, life.......the was it is supposed to be.
They all met with James Wilson for breakfast this morning and then at 11h00 departed for Riviersonderend, in Phil's landy - WITH THE IRISH FLAG FLYING OUT THE WINDOW, was hysterical, they will update you with the pictures!!!!
They have brought us so much fun and energy and tomorrow they make history!!!!They will be putting the first structure up at RSE - The Tee Pee!!!I go down to RSE on Friday!!!!
Lotsa love to everyone following this Blog! You can be very proud of the MylifE 5!!!!!
Linzi
Sunday, July 22, 2007
The Mylife5
MylifE5 - welcome to Cape Town! I am so excited that you are all here and sorry that I have not seen you yet. Wes left for London last night and everything has been upside down.
Your trip to Cape Town will undoubtably bring you a holistic understanding of what Mylife is all about and the work that has been done and what needs to happen to fulfull our vision http://www.mylife.org.za/, You are going to get to spend valuable time with young people who have survived a childhood and youth on the streets living in a "cycle of destruction". Youngsters who have broken the bonds with the cycle and are now the most awesome leaders.
You are also going to meet some very special people who have dedicated their lived to finding ways to PREVENT the predicted millions of children who will be orphaned in SA - from becoming "street" children. Children do not belong on the streets and I know you will carry this message forward in your future journeys through life.
I can imagine a future in which all children have the benefits of living life with love!I also know that in my life time this will be challenging to achieve, however, this can be achieved in your lifetimes!!!!!
C u tomorrow
Your trip to Cape Town will undoubtably bring you a holistic understanding of what Mylife is all about and the work that has been done and what needs to happen to fulfull our vision http://www.mylife.org.za/, You are going to get to spend valuable time with young people who have survived a childhood and youth on the streets living in a "cycle of destruction". Youngsters who have broken the bonds with the cycle and are now the most awesome leaders.
You are also going to meet some very special people who have dedicated their lived to finding ways to PREVENT the predicted millions of children who will be orphaned in SA - from becoming "street" children. Children do not belong on the streets and I know you will carry this message forward in your future journeys through life.
I can imagine a future in which all children have the benefits of living life with love!I also know that in my life time this will be challenging to achieve, however, this can be achieved in your lifetimes!!!!!
C u tomorrow
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