Time out Tuesday

Well yet again it has been a few days since I have written. I just want to keep all of you on your toes. All 5 of you. I have been doing therapy during the days per usual of my weeks. This week I am now in the language group again, but with a different supervisor. The day begins with toddlers. Usually I am quite excited about this, but right now they are punks. To the max. Their schedules have been altered a little due to some cleaning happening in haven 2, their residence, so they are all crazy. Almost every single one of them threw a tantrum today. After the terror toddlers, we then went to haven 1 with the 12-18 month old babies. We sat around and talked with all of the babies. I changed many a poopy diaper. Again. I have gotten quite good at this task, unfortunately. Finding the clothes is the most interesting part. Especially for a baby named Megan. Due to her large size, it is sometimes difficult to find clothing for her. Poor Megan. Luckily I found a cute 2T dress for her to wear today so she was actually styling. Go Meagan. Lunch today was meatloaf. I can eat again so I was excited because it was yummy.

The afternoon began with a change of color. Literally. Ian found a chameleon. I had it on my arm and it changed colors when it got on my shirt. It was pretty cool. Later, I had a chameleon on my head. But I digress back to therapy. The afternoon this week is in Haven 3. I love Haven 3, aka the house with all of the sicker babies in it. They are so fun to work with. Today I worked with a child named Bennett, he likes to mimic the way I say “hiiiiiiiiii.” This was really cute. I also worked with Seth, who is one of my favorite children. He is a little turd to the max but he is cute; in addition he also talks quite a bit and mimics what we say. True love. Like always, I love the troublemakers. To end the day I had Heath, aka Mr. Floppy-pants. He does not have a lot of muscle tone or control of his body. He is a little flirt though because he smiles at all of us. He is not quite old enough to do anything other than babble so no repetition of words. I was able to help all the older children during feeding time. I sat by Sydney, who is quite possibly the cutest child on the planet. Sadly after feeding time it was also leaving time. So the walk back to the house began. I stayed to watch soccer for about 5 minutes when I passed by the fields because Tuesdays are practice days. Unfortunately they always practice during our last session or during our dinner so I am never able to participate. So sad. Dinner tonight was tuna, which I was totally ok with. We added new people to our number tonight because the people that are doing a documentary while we are here arrived. We were all a little crazy tonight during dinner. Not to mention I had to get cake for everyone at my table and ended up looking like the fatty of the table. Oh well. Anything for a picture, just kidding!

After dinner a group of us headed to the soccer field in hopes that they would still be there. Sadly they were finished but we took a frisbee and threw it around. Two college Zambians came. During this time I found out that my soccer friend named Mike is actually named Mark. My mind has been blown. I have been calling him the wrong name for almost a week. Goodness! We taught them how to throw a frisbee and then just talked with them. I am glad that I met Mark, he is really nice and enjoys telling us about his culture. Unfortunately darkness came too soon so we had to head back. We stopped by Mrs. Mono’s house to see if she had any new purses. I need to stop going there because I always want like 5 of them. Well you only come to Africa once…maybe :)