Crazy Weekend!

Clare and I are absolutely exhuasted!

It was a very crazy weekend. We did end up going out to dinner on Saturday night with all the other volunteers and then we went back to a Guest House in Spring Valley where two volunteers were staying. It was a reasonably late night before we headed back to the orphanage and then we were up nice and early the next day! One thing we have learnt while staying at the orphanage is that 5.30am is wake up time. We are lucky enough to be directly below the boys dorm and for some reason EVERY morning (not exagerating) the kids are up at 5.30 and there are beds scraping along the ground. It is pretty impossible to sleep! I think Clare's still getting used to early mornings over here :P

We started playing with the kids on Sunday but then got in trouble because they were meant to be in Church so we were told to go to the Guest House so the kids couldn't see us and would stop leaving the Church. Oops! We decided that was our cue to leave and Clare, Jack (one of the volunteers who satyed over) and I headed off to Junction for lunch. We then went to 'New Life' which is a babies home and was so cute! We spent 3 and a half hours just nursing babies and feeding them their bottles. There were ten of them in the room we were in, all really really young, but there were 48 kids altogether under the age of 3 at the orphanage.

Clare slowly got used to holding the babies, although I thin she was more than happy to go back to the bigger kids. She did have a favourite baby though, Henry, while I had George :)

We taught this morning, it was very frustrating because we were doing a word search, which none of the kids understood so needed a lot of help with. The teacher just sat at the front reading her book while Clare and I were struggling to explain to them how to do it, she eventually got up and told them in swahili then sat back down again while we had to deal with all the kids who STILL didn't get it. Lucily we got out of class this afternoon, meeting up for a movie with the other volunteers which should be good!