Four days a week my friends invite some of the children from the orphanage for lunch. Its a great opportunity to spend time with the kids and get to know them. They arrive around 1pm and lunch is served buffet style. This week between my friends, their own children, us and the kids we total twelve. That's only four adults, which results in lunch being energy filled, loud and unpredictable. Also totally fun.
The conversation is non-stop and ranges in topics to selecting nicknames that rhyme with our names to questions about America. The questions, jokes and random comments come rapid fire in between spoonfuls. About thirty minutes later that table looks like a tornado hit. Rotating chores are assigned; someone sweeps, someone clears the table and someone else puts the leftovers away; probably the easiest job since there were never a lot of leftovers. Rob reads a story and then its off to play.
In between doing nursing activities, the majority of our days at the orphanage involved playing sports and hanging out with the kids. It was school vacation and the kids were anxious to have stuff to do. We played basketball, volleyball and jumped rope. I have not jumped rope in a long time. The first few attempts I was rusty but it comes back. The kids are sweet and encouraging which helped. I had better luck with basketball. I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend time with the kids.
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