November 30th Visit

Moore and I went to the orphanage in order to make Christmas decorations with the children and find out what each child wanted as gifts. When we arrived at the orphanage the children weren't there yet so we created templates for the children to use. Snowman, Christmas ball, tree, mistletoe, and even a little Santa Clause. After they arrived we had them write letters to 'Santa' so that we could see what they wanted. They really enjoyed writing them^^ That project about 30 minutes so we moved onto making the ornaments. Mostly the younger children participated in that. We were originally going to use the ornaments that they made on the Angel Tree with each child's picture and a description of what they wanted but we sort of had to change our plans. I had brought about 2 packs of glitter paint with me for them to use and I think that almost all of it got used. We couldn't take the ornaments home with us cause they were covered in the wet glitter still. It was hard trying to keep the room straight and clean up all the globs of glitter paint everywhere; especially when they are braiding your hair, playing catch, and using you as a chair :D While the younger children were making the ornaments the older ones were in the 'living room' watching Japanese anime. They were so engrossed by it, it was hilarious. Once they got tired of making ornaments, they begged us to go outside and play with them. I must say that that is probably the best workout I've gotten in a while. Two of the children, Daniel and Hana, continously wanted to be picked up, twirled around, run around with, and thrown in the air.... We just couldn't get a break from them. The older boys wanted to play baseball, so we did for a while. The eldest boy was pretty good :) It was getting pretty late so we told them that we had to leave soon and headed back inside. Before we left, we got the children in a group picture and had them sing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' in english and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' in korean. They were awesome!!! And I must say that I was chocked when I first heard them singing in english but quite impressed by how well they did it; even the yougest kids. We kind of got stuck there for another hour-ish as we waited for a taxi to showup and take us back to base. We ended up playing 'noli gongi' with them and they kicked our butts!!! We promised them that we would practice and come back next time, this way we won't look as bad hahahaha. We already have the date, time, activity, andplace set up for the children. Looks like we'll have a busy month ahead of us^^