A full day at the orphanage

I am so sorry I am late again. I won't surprise any of you that I was out shopping until late! Really I was! More about that later.

Yesterday got started with getting up at 7:30 and showers. That is an experience in itself. We practically have to

swim

to the shower. No shower curtain. I will have to decribe that one is person. The plumbing is something I just can't write about. I have pictures, but I am sure the pictures won't tell the story either. Any way,

then devotions were at 8:45 followed by breakfast at 9:00. Meals seem to go on forever. They just keep bringing food. Breakfast and lunch are the big meals. Dinner is smaller yet often times too big. At 10:00 we started quilting again. We made 14 of the 20 quilts. They only had 7 machines. The teacher of the sewing class even made one. She was so excited. I let the extas with her so she could make the rest with the students. They turned out very nice. Believe it or not most of the ones who wanted to sew were boys. Who would have thought. I remembered that I brought a video camera, so some of the boys filmed the session yesterday. I was going to try to upload it on the blog today, but it just seems to big a project to tackle this morning!

While one group was quilting another group was doing a make over with Mary Kaye. Of course, the girls loved it. We have that on film also. I am sure that you will enjoy seeing the children in action.

By this time it was time to PARTY. Can you even imagine all of those children in one room opening Christmas gifts?? Well, it was quite an ordeal! It was almost more than I could take. They received a sweater, a pair of shoes, a neck scarf, a pair of gloves, a beanie babie, a hat, lotion, some chap stick, some finger nail polish (girl), a ball (boy), ball cap (boy). Now what did you get for Christmas this year? Makes you think doesn't it? I know we can't change the world but at least all of you helped us bring a lot of love to these children on this one day. They were so excited. You can not even imagine. Some of them had everything on all at one time. It was the greatest thing to see. It was a very humbling experience. Wondering if that is what God had in mind for me on this trip???

Af the party it was time to eat again. I have taken a couple of pictures of our table at mealtime, you will enjoy seeing them.

Now it was time to play again. Joe, Luke, Derek, Ryan, Diane, Amy, Alyssa, Cydney all played Soccer and volleyball I think. Caitlin and I made friendship bracelets. More than you can even imagine. The kids came from everywhere. they loved those things. We left all the leftover supplies here so they can continue. You would have thought we had gold beads! Once again, it was not just the girls boys did this also.

We did this until dinner. By this time we are saying "Not another meal. We just ate!" We sat and talked at the tables after dinner. Some of the people from the church were here with us. Finally one said "Let's go to the market". And of course all of us jumped and said "Let's go"! This means the mall!

We walked just a short distance not by sidewalk, but over the river and through the woods, sort of, to the mall. It was cold and slippery. Shopping here is a frustrating experience. Most of the time they reject your credit card. We all called our credit card companies. That does not matter. One time they will work, the next time no! We just sort of share and pay each other cash. We all were able to get a few souvenirs. That was great.

By the time we got back and had devotions it was 11:30 and way past my bedtime! I wish you all could be here with us. These little (and big) kids are the best. They are not wanting us to go home. I told one little girl yesterday that I had to go home to see my husband and she told me to bring him over here. She said you just move here. She is a beautiful young girl and speaks beautiful English. Leaving is going to be hard.

More later.