Lots and Lots of Children

Like our first night, I slept all night last night. Theres something calming about being in a foreign country for me. Even with screaming babies and todlers in the house, I sleep all night long. This morning we woke up around 7 to go to Bill and Betty Bryant house. This was where the children go after House of Moses. The children there were between 2 and 5 years old, because they try to get all the children adopted into new families by age 5. We got to the house and all the children were in the living room, crowded around the window, like the bus we came in was the most exciting thing they had seen all day. Which in there defense, it probably was. They were all laughing and shouting at us, reaching their little hands through the window to try to touch our hands as we walked by. Once we got inside the house, there was a wave of children flowing from the window to the door where we were. The kids crowded around our legs and put their arms up, obviously for us to pick them up. There were 22 kids and 7 adults so they definately outnumbered us. We played with balloons, blew bubbles outside, brought out the toys, watched TV, and mostly just tried to keep them ocupied. I was exhausted by lunchtime when we returned to House of Moses. I spent a while in the nursery with my friends who come to the house after school to volunteer, before we went outside to lay on the grass and them try to teach me a little more Nyanja. A group of 5th graders from the Garden School came to do crafts with us and we make paintings and bookmarks. It was so much fun to help them and see how happy they got when making their crafts. I'm very excited to spend more time with these adorable children that can never get enough love!