There were two highlights from the
weekend!
Highlight #1: My two roommates for the
past two weeks (a mother daughter pair from Canada) just left this
morning, but before they left, they gave GLA money to have a party
for the kids at the Toddler House. So on Saturday night, we cleared
out the courtyard at Kay B, set up speakers and a strobe light, put
up a huge screen made from a tarp, and had a party! The money from
the two volunteers went to pringles – lots and lots of them. Each
kid and the nannies too got their own can of pringles when we started
the movie, which was The Lorax.
Watching the kids dance and dancing with them was an experience I'm
not likely to forget. Those kids know how to jam out to music. They
were all in the pajamas too which made even better. We danced and
danced and danced for a very long time to lots and lots of very loud
and wonderful music. There is a bar just down the street from the
orphanage, and sometimes at night they play very
loud and often obnoxious music late into the night, but as Wendy
(one of the volunteers from Canada) aptly stated, we gave that bar a
run for their money. Well we eventually stopped dancing, set up
benches and chairs, passed out the pringles, and turned on the movie.
I don't know exactly how much of it the kids understood. We did watch
it in English – they are learning English in school and many of the
older ones especially speak and understand it well, but there was
constant and noisy chatter throughout the duration of the film, and
three of the girls ignored the movie for the most part and instead
looked through all the pictures on my camera.
These pictures sort
of serve to capture the energy of the dancing masses, but certainly
not adequately...
Highlight #2: A
friend visited! It was soooo so good to see a familiar face here in
Haiti!!!
Yay for dancing! Yay for Elie! Smiles, smiles, smiles.
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