Man, the last few days have been absolutely crazy. Hannah Smele and myself have been helping out at Kings Children home, and its been nuts. The first day was awful, the staff didn’t talk to us, and we didn’t know what to do. Each day since from then it has gotten better. I hate the hours they want us to work though, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, when everybody else is done their placements at 4:30. It just is darker when we get back, and we are bushed from playing with these kids all day. The kids are very cute though (check out my pictures on Facebook). We have been taking the kids to the park to tire them out in the mornings now, which seems to be working quite well.
Then we have to eat their food! That’s an experience all on its own. The first days were rice and beans. It was the grossest beans I have ever eaten. I could only eat one third of the food they served me. Since the first day me and Hannah have been bringing granola bars, just in case of gross food. We also can walk to a store, called Brodies, to buy freezies, which are called “ideal’s” here.
Other things that we have done are, tarantula hunts, snake catching, and buying pools. My personal favorite was the tarantula hunt. We would walk along the path and flip over rocks in search of a tarantula. After a couple of rocks we found one. Lindsay caught it with her salad tongs. Later we caught three more, Lindsay caught three and I caught one of the four. Mine was humongous. Two escaped during the night, and mine killed the remaining one, which has now escaped.
I will be updating this blog again later…
1 comment:
aren't tarantula's poisonous or something like that? you're so strange:P not saying i wouldn't do something equally as nutso, but i would never put tarantula catching over lindsey! hope alls going well, greetings from the north, b3n
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