Children's Party & Last S/School

We took our 10 children to the Jamestown public swimming pool for their Christmas Party (in SA we have to call it an "end of year" party). Instead of giving each child a specific gift, I wrapped girls' gifts in one colour paper, and the boys in another. So they had a kind of "lucky dip". Some were pleased, and others not.

We ended our year's Sunday School lessons with a DVD on the life of Moses - "Prince of Egypt". We tried to notice how often the movie differed from the Bible. Afterwards there was the usual 'playing with the pets'.

St Helena takes Christmas traditions very seriously, and the exchange of Christmas cards is one of them. The problem is that it is difficult to find reasonable cards to buy. We decided to follow our predecessors' example, and had cards made from a photo that Graeme took of us in the back yard of the manse.


The other interesting thing about the whole 'card exchanging' tradition is that there is no real postal system between the local residents on the island. Everyone just carries their cards around with them, and hands them out when they bump into their friends. Graeme handed out most of our cards at church services, but then took off on his motor bike to deliver the last few to folk who live 'in the country'.