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We are halfway done with the internship and time has really just flown by! We have all been finishing up our “Monitoring and Evaluating” reports about the past SMRC projects in Makrepeni. For these reports we have looked at the Communtity Center/Creche, Samson Primary School Library, and Samson Primary School Computer Lab and through observation and interviews we have determined whether they have met their original goals. Unfortunately, progress has been slow and many of the improvements from last year have fallen apart. We are spending the next three weeks on our own small projects to once again improve these places. Camps are over now; the kids had a blast at field day and hopefully learned a lot during our education classes. Another main focus of the next few weeks is the planning of the Soccer for Real Change Soccer Tournament 2009. We have been organizing the soccer tournament/health day for August 1st at in Utha. We are trying to get some big name sponsors for food and water and money to buy other resources like soccer balls and jerseys. It should be a very fun and exciting day filled with sports and education, raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and getting tested. We have done a few things for fun in the past weeks. A group of twelve went to the Djuma Game Reserve last Tuesday for one night and the remaining people go this Tuesday. The first group had a great time on safari, taking showers, and eating great food! Our retreat to Hazyview has been rescheduled for next week and we are all looking forward to that as well. On Saturday we threw a big braai (barbeque) for all the interns and stuffed ourselves with beef and Boer worst…mmm! It is hard to believe there is less than a month left, but we are having a great time and learning a lot!