The most exciting thing ever happened to us Monday night... we went and saw a movie! It was Monday Movie Madness where it was like $8 for ticket, popcorn, drink and chocolate, so off we went! We saw 'I am Legend', it was the first bit of Tv we had seen while here and hmmmm, it was a bit scary and had a bad ending. What I really needed was a good chick flick but there were none showing!
We went back to teaching middle class on Tuesday and found out that while the kids are very good at copying letters and words, they actually do not understand the sounds that the letters make or anything like that. So we decided at lunch to bring in old magazines and we spent the entire afternoon going through the alaphabet letter by letter, making them find the letter in the magazine and cut it out. It took a long time but they are pretty good at the alpahabet now and have a nice poster too! We were left on our own for the end of the day and went out to see the kids across the street. Each day we help the kids who don't live at the orphanage across the street before they run off home.
I spent the afternoon with the 'babies' on the oval. The youngest, Mary and Lucy are sisters, who we could have sworn were twins! The teachers told us they were twins, although we found out from their sister that one is like a year older than the other. The first time we met these two girls they ran away from us and wouln't speak to us and were soooooo shy! Yesterday afternoon I had Lucy pulling me around the oval and Mary jumping into my arms and chasing me around the place, they are so cute! We can't get them to stop talking now! We don't understand what they are saying though because they don't speak english! The kids love coming to our place to colour in pictures and stick them on the wall and we try not do it every afternoon because it is so tiring and messy! Yesterday though, Lucy pulled me off the field and wouldn't even let me put my shoes on and when I asked where we were going she said 'colour time'. We ended up doing a bit of colouring and then Florence went and painted all the girls' nails! Unfortunately she only had clear nail polish, I told her I think we should now go and buy hot pink!
We had a special meal for dinner that night which was good, although i felt so guilty! The kids were eating just plain rice by itself and Mama had made us a special meal with chips and carrot and cabbage. I felt so mean eating it in front of the kids AND THEN not actually been able to finish it!!!!!
We had another day of teaching today, I think we were meant to help paint the orphanage but that never happened! Instead, we did some work on animals and writing and in the afternoon had all 26 kids together and drew bees for them to colour in and then cut out crepe paper wings to stick on.
Looking forward to our break tomorrow. Two social workers at the orphanage, Carol and Jacinta are taking us to visit other orphanages which I am really excited about!
PS:i am so excited because I managed to put a photo up! This photo is off Mary, Miriam and Lucy.
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