Monday night we welcomed three new volunteers and Friday, two more will be arriving. The majority of the volunteers are from the United States, and it's fun learning things that they do and say differently even though they are from our neighbour country. (like they say "College" instead of "University")
Yesterday, Em and I had a day off. We decided to go to the internet cafe to try to pick out courses for next year, which was very confusing, because Nipissing seems to have made some changes that cause weird course conflicts! Anyway, on our walk back to the orphanage, we met some street kids and got to hang out with them for a little while. It still amazes me - that these kids can be on the street, without families or ANYONE at all to take care of them, except maybe older brothers and sisters who are often not even that old. It's overwhelming, because their needs are so great, and it's obviously not possible for us to take care of them in the way that they need it most. We also ended up visiting with a Ugandan family on their front porch and got to learn a lot about their lives and how different things are here. The mother has 7 kids - the youngest is 14 i believe, and one of the daughters has a beautiful baby of her own. From what I understood, some of her children were not even her own - she had taken in her brother's kids when he and his wife had passed away. The mother was saying that she didn't have a job this year so some of her children weren't able to go to school, but she decided to stay home with them so that someone would still take care of them. It was so sweet to see her joy and sense her great love for her children. Em also taught a song to the family and they taught us a Lugandan song too - translated, the words mean "Jesus loves you!" It was a really precious to hear them singing. :)
For dinner, we went to a restaurant called "The Gately" and we ordered a chicken burger because we were really craving one... It was very interesting, haha! We decided it must have been canned chicken, or something like that :P oh well! The fries (called"chips") were tasty!
This morning, preschool went really well! Em and I both agreed that it was the best day yet :) The kids seemed pretty well behaved, and there were very few time-outs! yay! Haha, and Em had the idea to do a sweet craft with them, incorporating different shapes that they learned about this morning. We gave them each a piece of construction paper and different types of shapes that were different colours and then let them paste them on. What we didn't realize is that these kids have never (or barely ever) used glue sticks!! So they didn't really know how they worked - They were gluing one side and then expecting the shape to stick on without flipping it over, haha!
This afternoon, we will go on another outing - I'm not sure where we will go yet, or what kids we will take, but it should be a goooood time!
Muchhhh love!!
Alyssa
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