This morning when we woke, Alina decided to go to the medium girls' circle (devotional time)...while I took Noah over to the other side of the orphanage to go to the medium boys' circle. It would be Noah's first experience with "Circle". On the way, Noah spotted a live grasshopper on top of the small boys' trampoline. He had seen a dead grasshopper a couple days ago that ants were all over and beginning to carry away, but this was his first live one, so he asked for a picture. The pastor that gave the sermon yesterday was at the boys house to do the devotion for circle. The bigger boys wanted me to translate, but I kept telling them that they had the ability to do so. Of course they chickened out at the last minute, so I ended up translating what the pastor said in English to Spanish. The lesson was about the 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, and that whatever we bring to God, no matter how small, he will multiply it to bless others.
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| 6" grasshopper on top of the trampoline |
We walked with the medium boys to the comedor (dining hall), and I went over to say 'hi' to the girls. Noah ran out of the comedor, waving for me to come. When I got to him outside, he let me know that he desperately needed food and didn't feel so well. I took him over to the store and we got him some thick wafers and ginger ale. I also bought Alina a ginger ale when she got to the tienda because she was complaining of a weak stomach. It does take a little bit to adjust to the food down here and the difference in diet. After they ate, we headed back to our room so that I could get them an Imodium to help settle their tummies too.
The medium boys were in the yard in front of the school all day, so we headed that way so that Noah could play soccer with them. He played hard and all morning and afternoon. He did get a little sunburned, but enjoyed every minute of playing with them. The boys also discovered that there is a little lake running underneath the yard and under the cement slab where the gazebo used to be they found a toad, a bunch of tadpoles and a crab. I didn't know that crabs could live in fresh water?!?! Boys being boys, of course, fed the tadpoles to the crab and watched it eat them, they played with the crab while it was on the ground, carried it around all day in a jar, and at the end of the day decided that the crab and the toad needed to fight each other. Again, Noah fit right in & was enjoying every minute of spending time with these 40+ boys.
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| Noah and Gerson with the sapo (toad) |
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| The congrejo (crab) that the medium boys caught |
When the boys headed to the comedor for supper, we headed to the tienda. Noah ate a hot dog (loaded with cole slaw, ketchup and mustard), while Alina just had some chips and I had 2 very tiny loaves of vanilla bread. We headed back to our room after that because I wanted Noah to rest from all of the play and his slight sunburn. Hopefully he'll be able to sleep about 11 hours so that he'll be ready for a full day tomorrow. We still don't have an assignment in terms of a house that we are supposed to report to in the mornings, lunch times and supper times (toddlers, power toddlers, medium boys, etc), but it appears we'll be doing some sizing of the kids this year as well as a little bit of pull-out for reading during the day.
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| Alina's feet after a day of playing soccer |
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