Terror to Terrific Tuesday

Day 22

Terror Tuesday. Today during our morning session the toddlers were in fact terrible. They each took turns crying and throwing fits. Our morning session was not pleasant. After working with the toddlers we headed to Haven 1. Today I got to work with Megan. We worked on how not to cry or whine when wanting something. We also spent some time walking around. She is getting more confident when walking which is good. Hopefully she will be able to walk by herself by the time we leave.

For lunch today we had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, and rolls. It was quite delicious and I went back of seconds. During lunch we talked about what we wanted to do in Livingstone while we are there part of next week for our “African Vacation” Some of us are very excited to go, others of us are hesitant because we want to spend as much time with the babies as possible.

Our afternoon sessions went much better. Today I got to work with my favorite child. Today I decided I was going to adopt her. Just kidding. Today when I went to go get Sydney she sat up in her bed and raised her arms with a big smile. “Well if you insist” I thought in my head. We had lots of fun today working on our sounds. Today Megan, a worker at the Havens from America explained to me why Sydney always wears a warm onesie. Apparently she has always been a smaller baby, and here in Africa they think smaller babies need to be kept warmer so that is why she is always bundled up. So after Megan got through explaining why she took off Sydney’s onesie and said, “your free” She got really excited and laughed. She was so cute without her onesie on, she still had another layer of clothes underneath. When it was  time for Sydney’s bath the Auntie didn’t even recognize her because she didn’t have her onesie on. It was funny.

At the end of the day it was hard to leave Haven 3. The kids there were in great moods compared to the kids in the morning. It was very refreshing to work with them. After leaving Haven 3 we found Ian with two chameleons. He had a big one and a small one. He named the big one after his African friend David and the smaller one after himself because Ian is small and David is big. Ian let us hold them and take lots of pictures; I kinda want a pet chameleon now. This evening another group of people arrived from Harding. They are here to take video of what we do throughout the day. We had dinner together and then they got situated in their housing.

Tonight a group of us went to the soccer field in hopes to catch some of the students playing soccer. Unfortunately they had gone to dinner, but Muso and Mark (Mike) came and threw the Frisbee disc with us. It was funny to watch them learn how to throw and catch because it is something they are not use to at all.  After playing Frisbee we retired for the night.

Thank you

Ben