Feed My Starving Children

This morning we headed to the girls house in the morning to help get them ready for morning circle.  Kimberly told me yesterday that she thought the little girls house was going to be a better fit for her than the toddlers.  I'm glad she found a place to fit in, that makes her feel more comfortable about being here.  She's still super-excited and I can see that written all over her face and in how she interacts with the children.  I'm extremely excited for her!  After circle, the girls line up to eat.  This morning's breakfast was chocolate granola cereal, which Kimberly really liked but I don't plan on buying any time soon back in the States.  That's not to say I couldn't stand it...just to say that I'm not really one to mix granola with chocolate for breakfast. 

After doing the dishes, we went to the team house to meet up with Joanne for our gardening work for the morning.  She had to go and check on each group to make sure they made it to the proper spot, so when we all headed over to the baby house, I quickly stopped by the toddler house to pick up the lice combs and rinse to use in the little girls hair when we were to bathe them later in the evening.

When we got to the greenhouse, Andres and William (another volunteer living in the house with Andres) were already there weeding.  Andres told me about the 2 super-sized wood spiders that they had found.  Much of the ground in the greenhouse was either wet or underwater, so there was lots of mud.  Yuck for the shoes, but awesome for weed-pulling, which is what we were there to do.  Kimberly found lots of toads, but the grand-daddy of them all was just over the size of a HUMONGOUS grapefruit!  I'm pretty sure she got a picture of it.

Kimberly & I had to head back to the volunteer house early due to being drenched with sweat and mud and wanting to clean up before heading over to the little girls house for lunch.  We had lunch with the girls and did dishes.  The noodles that we had for lunch were "interesting"...ask me about them when I get back.  But being a type of pasta and the amount that I had, I just wasn't hungry come suppertime.  We headed back to the volunteer house because Kimberly was going to catch up with Caroline to head to town for some groceries.  There was a big mix-up in communication.  Caroline was in her room with the door shut, which we never knew.  We just assume that when a bedroom door is shut, that either means the person is out and about or that they are sleeping.  So they never knew each other was in the house!

We headed back to the little girls house for supper and that's where Kimberly noted the Manna Packs from the Feed My Starving Children program in the garbage.  Those were a portion of what was used to make the supper here!  I only focus on that because it was only a week or two ago that our church, New Hope, actually hosted a gathering of volunteers to fill those packets!  Now those of you friends who have done that know that they are being used.  Perhaps the ones that you filled didn't go here...but it's a great program!

After supper, Kimberly & I helped with bathing the children.  I had left the lice combs back at the volunteer house and tried to run back to get them, but the house was locked up.  I didn't know the combination to the box to get the key, so that'll have to wait for tomorrow night.  We finally retired to the house where we had a nice long conversation with our newest long-term volunteer, Zue, who arrived with the Maryland team but will be here for over a year.  She is from Peru and it seems we'll get along nice!