Be.

My time here is ending, and I honestly didn't expect to love being here as much as I do. I came here with so much grief, and I didn't really know how to be. I struggled to interact with the students -- to form new connections that felt dangerous, because of the loss inherent in love.

Today I took the students to Dainfern, passed out a quiz on our project in FNH and directed FPM (somewhat) to complete their typing for their business plans. Afterwards, the students more-or-less did their Women's Day preparations, and I took photographs of FNH for their future Team Vistan pen pals. That's when Khanyisile and Glorymore started dancing, and Gugulethu told me to take a picture of them, and that's when they all started jumping in the pictures, laughing, being totally silly, and I kept snapping photographs and laughing, too.

Soon it was time for them to go to the bus, and time for me to head back to Linbro Park. I felt happy and sad simultaneously. The days go by so quickly. I don't know how I'll come home, or how my heart can just keep growing to contain more and more people, more and more hearts. I am excited to meet my new students (as are the students at LEAP 4 excited to meet them) and to introduce them (via letter & photograph) to these fantastic young people that I've been privileged to be around in Diepsloot.