Indian Ocean, rugby, Zulu church

Our first weekend is Durban was nice. With no one on campus during the weekend we had our first opportunity to be tourists in the city on Saturday. We got up early and went to the beach for the morning. The Indian Ocean was really cool. The beach area itself was a little dirty, and very tourist oriented, kind of Miami-like. The best thing: Durban has the best bodysurfing I've ever experienced. The waves are spaced far apart and you see them coming in, breaking at the same place every time and then carrying you somtimes 50 or 60 yards back to the shoreline. We spent a good bit of the day out in the water. We also played some kids from a local township in soccer on the beach. They were much better than us, but given that they were all under the age of ten we held our own. We left the beach around 2 to get ready for much anticipated rugby match.
Those who talked to me before I left probably knew that a rugby match was the one South African "cultural" experience" I really wanted to have while I was here. on Saturday night we went and watched the biggest match of the year for the Durban Sharks. A win and four scores would be enough to put them into the semis for the international Super 14 tournament. We got pretty good seats, had some South Africas explain the game before we went in and enjoyed the experience greatly, eating giant sausuges, cheering and watching the Sharks advance to the semis of the tournament. It was a unique event, but I found rugby to be an awesome sport and I have no doubt that if I lived here I would love it as much as I love football. One of the funniest things was the American influence: the team came out to AC/DC, the played "Woop there it is" after every score and wonder of all wonders after the game they played "Sweet Home Alabama." After the game we got to actually go down on the field and meet a few players and the trainer through connections with one of the full time Crusade staff here. The last interesting note about the match was that the croawd was almost entirely white- the first time we have not been obvious minorities all trip. Whites only make up 10-15% of the total population here, but this was a "white" sport for years and as a result, still has predominantly white fans.
Sunday we went to the opposite end of the spectrum, attending a Zulu church in one of the townships. The entire service was in Zulu (the tribal language), but it was awesome to see God's people of another nation, tribe and tongue worshipping together. The only words we knew in the whole service were "Jesus," "Amen," and "Hallelujah." The township was also quite eye-opening and I really hope that we can spend our last few weeks working there (after the University students leave for winter break). Then Sunday afternoon was our first true down time of the trip. We took naps, read and generally bummed around before our meeting last night to prep for the week.
We were back on campus early today and had another good day as we begin to transition from initiative evangilism into building relationships and following up new believers. We saw two more students accept Christ today (11 now since we've been here), which is just incredible encouraging. Pray for our team to endure the long days of conversation. It can be really draining to initiate conversation and drive conversation all day long and often have people dismiss your beliefs and shut you off. But people being saved daily continues to rejuvenate us. We will be on campus everyday this week for 5-6 hours. This is the last week of normal classes before their study week and final exams. Also, please pray for a retreat we are planning for the students right before we leave (June 13-15). We hope it will unite them and set up for them to begin having weekly meetings and more organized discipleship.
I think that's about it here...
Please continue to pray- God is at work!