Being Friday, today began with Big Circle. All of the children come right out in front of the building we're staying in to worship, have devotions, and sing praises. Some children's houses are chosen to recite their memory verses, which usually is comprised of an entire chapter, rather than just 1 verse. Today it was our medium boys turn, followed by the big boys and then the small boys.
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| Medium Boys reciting their verses |
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| Small boys reciting their verses |
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| The children of Emmanuel in Big Circle |
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| Big boys reciting their verses |
After circle, we went to breakfast and then headed to school where we found out the results of the math test. Two girls had decided to turn their tests in completely empty. They were told that there would be absolutely no chance of a retake and that they had to talk with the principal of the school. There were 2 boys who would be able to retake and we'll have to figure out how that will work so that they can retake next week.
In the afternoon, I was at the medium boys house, helping put together a trampoline that they received from the semi container that came this week. It is a larger, rectangular shaped trampoline. It looks really nice outside the boys house.
This afternoon a smaller team also arrived from South Carolina. There were about 13 people in this group. Meanwhile, the Ohio group was saying their "goodbyes" as they'll be leaving tomorrow. Chino (in charge of the medium boys) put together a basketball game with the medium boys and Alina and Noah participated. There were 3 teams. Alina's team won the first game 8-16 (against Noah). Then Noah's team played game #2 and won, and then the final game was between Alina and Noah's team once again (with a few more big people joining in...mostly on Noah's team) and Noah's team won 13-12.
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| Alina vs Noah |
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| Alina vs Noah |
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| Noah shooting a 3-pointer |
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| Alina ready to bring the ball up the court |
We finished off the evening with a dinner put on by the Ohio team for staff and volunteers. It was extremely filling and consisted of ribs, mashed potatoes and gravy, cole slaw, fruit and donuts. I think Noah went back for thirds! When we walked back to our room from the team house, the power to the orphanage was completely out and we forgot to bring flashlights, so we walked in complete darkness. We all slept well with full bellies!
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