Girls’ Pajama Jam’me Jam -by Sarah H

OUR BEAUTIFUL TABLE!

7 April 09 (Sarah)

It was a Tuesday night. Our small groups this school are usually during the afternoons on Tuesdays but this week, we decided on something special for the Girls’ Small group. We try to have many different things and go to a coffee shop or bake something, but this time, Angela had a Pajama Party at her house. We all got into comfortable wear and headed to her place. We had tea, sparkling juice and s’mores at the beautifully decorated table.

ENJOYING OUR TEA, SPARKLING GRAPE JUICE,
AND S'MORES AND LAUGHTER!!!!

It seems that S’mores are more of an American tradition than in other countries because our friend from the Netherlands did not know what in the world we were talking about. Her friend had explained it before but really, you just have to experience s’mores. And this is Africa so we had to improvise a bit as well. So for anyone not familiar with S’mores, they are traditionally made of Graham crackers, Hersey’s chocolate bars, and white marshmallows roasted over an open flame, stacked together and smooshed down to bite height. The warm Hersey bar melts under the toasted marshmallow and the crackers provide a sweet crunch. So S’mores, the African way- First there are no graham crackers here so we used Marie Biscuits (a sweet crunchy type cookie) it does have holes in it that the chocolate oozed out of. There are no heresy bars so we decided on chocolate sauce from Woolworths, and excellent if not better choice! Then there are the marshmallows. Now in America marshmallow are sold where you can get all white marshmallows in a pack, but here in South Africa they are only sold in assorted colors. So we had white and pink marshmallows to roast. I do believe that one American girl, tried the pink one but was not fond of the flavor. Since we didn’t really have a fireplace to roast the marshmallows, we used candles and laughed a lot. Some of the games we played while roasting marshmallows, were if you caught your marshmallow on fire, you had to sing a song. Then we went around and told our most embarrassing stories. Then a few of us did get a little too excited about just catching the marshmallows on fire instead of eating them:-)

ROASTING MARSHMELLOWS!

Later, after we had almost made ourselves sick with too many s’mores, we got out the spa treatments. We pampered ourselves with a hand treatment of scrubs and lotions. And for those who wanted, we soaked our feet in wonderful South African special foot wash and sealed it with the special lotion. Many painted fingernails and toenails all while watching a sweet romantic girly movie. It was very relaxing and fun to have all the student and staff girls getting together, no children, no boys, no books, no husbands, just a night for girls!

MARSHMELLOW AFLAME!