Dec 15 Cookie Bake

We decided to once again bring the children on base. Since all the children are under 14 they could come on even though they didn't have ID cards. Moore, Ritchey, Hyden and I took a taxi to the orphanage to pick the children up. Luckily, they arrived only 10 minutes after we arrived as opposed to the hour late they usually come. After they were all ready, we piled them into taxis and took them to base. Immediately after entering the dayroom they went crazy playing with the ping-pong table, pool table, fooze ball table, and messing around with the tv. While Ritchey and Hyden watched the children, Moore and I ran to get all of the cookie doughs and baking supplies that we needed. The day before I had made 3 chocolate chip cookie doughs and 3 sugar cookie doughs. We also had the ingredients needed for 'Snowman Surprise' cookies and gingerbreadmen to decorate. For some odd reason the kids used the cookie cutters while making the chocolate chip cookies.... They filled the whole cookie cutter up so that the cookies were over an inch thick. They took a little longer to cook but they seemed to come out alright. I accidentally burnt one batch, though. I was only going to leave the cookies in for about 5 more minutes but over 10 minutes later I ran to the oven and took the burnt cookies out. They were hard as rock hahaha. After all the chocolate chip cookies were done we had the children make gingerbreadmen. Some of them looked really cool. While we were making and decorating these cookies I put on some k-pop music. They absolutely loved Super Junior T's Rokkugu and Big Bang's Final Farewell. They were singing and dancing along like crazy. I definitely think the next time we take them from the orphanage we will go to a karoake room. I'm sure that they would love that. So after all those cookies were made 3 of the children helped to make the'Snowball Surprise' cookies while the rest of the kids watched 'My Young Bride.' A lot of the non-korean speaking volunteers who had never seen that movie before also sat and watched the entire thing. One of the boys grabbed the tray that was full of the cookies ready for the oven and as he was coming towards the oven he tripped and dumped the whole tray on the floor. We did the old '30 rule' and hurridly picked them up off the floor as all the kids started yelling at him. It was alright to still cook them though because all the germs were most likely cooked out of them. (We weren't really going to eat that batch anyway since the one girl totally sneezed in the dough.... but ssshhhhhh.... that's a secret) It was getting close to dinner by that time so we bought a few pizzas for all of us to share. Along with the karoake room I think it would be cool if we made pizzas with the children. They seemed really interested in doing that. The pizzas arrived and everybody ate a couple of slices. After eating, the eldest girl started beating up on the guys; especially Zack. (Although that might be because I was telling her in Korean that he was a liar, ugly, old, and that she should just hit him ;) ) It was getting late so we decided to take all the children home. We had a little trouble at the main gate because they didn't realize that the other guards had taken our ID's. First thing after they got home they started telling their mom about all the things that got to do. We let them take all the cookies, left over pizza, and gingerbreadmen home with them to share with the other people who live there. I am extremely happy at how smoothly everything went and at how much fun all the kids seemed to have.