mix it up...

This was a week full of local outreach. We had a speaker, a very good speaker. But there were several opportunities for different outreach locations so I took advantage of them. Wednesday we started the morning with a farm school; it’s a school out in the bush for local children (sometimes kids of farmers). We have a team from the states with us for 2 weeks, so they came. One of the women is a dentist so she spoke to the kids about their teeth.
At the end we got to pass out tooth brushes and toothpaste.

They didn’t speak much English but who needs English when you have Play-doh and Jenga!

After lunch, we went to an after school program. The kids actually spoke English pretty well so we were able to play some different games with them. Heidi and Kathryn taught them Surfer/Chick/Wave – it’s like rock/paper/scissors only it’s interactive. The kids really seemed to like it.

Next we played Tag – or Touch as they call it. They definitely liked that!

On Thursday, our regular place fell through because the after-school program was canceled. None of the kids showed up because of the holiday weekend. So we found another opportunity in another town. It’s only suppose to be about 45 minutes away, but there’s construction going on and we were told it could take an hour and a half. And that’s about how long it took! Good bonding experience. When we got there the kids were SO happy to see us! They up on some music and showed us their dance moves. They were good too! Then we split up the kids and took the younger kids inside to play with Play-doh, which they liked. Heidi and Kathryn tried to teach them Surfer/Chick/Wave but it didn’t go over so well. So they started playing relay races with the DTS students. After all the games, they put on the music again and this time it was our turn to show off. Right. They kept pulling us into the circle to bust a move. I was very reluctant but I did, but a made another girl come with me. :-) Unfortunately, I left my camera in the car....