Victory Rwanda 2012 Day 10

Afternoon playtime!

The children throwing fake snow at the camera

Kevin getting attacked with snow

The children playing with the fake snow

I saw this little girl on the walk to school

Ed and Chris teaching Karate

The walk back from school

The village

Neighborhood kids

Elias, Patrick and Zach

MURAHOO READERS!
Well, woke up early once again. This morning the children were running a little late for school so we hung around for a little until they were ready.  When they finally came out some of them were holding water jugs so the “muzongos” helped and we each grabbed two. The school is about a mile away so holding the water jugs did get a little tiring. (Well, at least for me).

After dropping the kids off at school, we came back to the house where there were delicious French toast waiting for us. I led devotions and read from the book of John, but unfortunately for me, I was not feeling well at all. While I rested and stayed in bed, the rest of the team went outside to play with the children who did not go to school.

I’m not sure how long I napped for but when I woke up it was time for lunch. Sambussa was on the menu. I wasn’t that hungry but the rest of the team really seemed to enjoy them. I guess I missed out on this one.

After everyone ate, Alisa and I went to the store to buy some more soda. (It goes by fast since it is so delicious) A few children came and helped carry the crates there and back. On the way back, I met some new people.  Almost everyone here wants there photo taken and love seeing the picture! Because of this I had to catch up to the rest of the group, but they waiting for me so we could all walk back together.

Chris, Kevin and Ed had already went up to teach the children some Karate moves. They love Karate! Meanwhile, Alisa and I had a surprise for the children. We were preparing to tell the kids about snow and even had fake snow that Alisa brought. 

We put the children into groups and they each got a cup of snow. They went CRAZY! They threw the fake snow at each other and it looked like they were having so much fun! Of course, I got hit in the face. Ouch! We kept doing this until all of the snow was gone.

Next thing we did is probably one of my favorite things to do! FUTBOLLLL! Usually we play at the orphanage but today was different. Instead we piled up into the two cars and went to a bigger field. This field was definitely a lot different from back at home. It had animal holes on one side of the field. Hills pretty much everywhere and little rocks that was easy to slip on. Unfortunately, we had to end early because someone got cleated in the eye. Luckily though, the boy only has a swollen eye and should heal just fine.

When we got back to the house we all had dinner and discussed what we were going to do at family time. We decided to go with acting out scenes from the bible. The kids loved it! Seeing them know so much about the bible was so inspiring to see! We would act out a scene and right away the children would guess what scene we were doing! It was definitely an awesome sight!

We ended up the night with our nightly devotions and had a great discussion about how Jesus healed a blind man with his own spit and some mud. 

Even though a few bad things happened today, like me being sick and the boy getting hurt, it was such an awesome sight to the children smiling and laughing. The highlight of my day was to just see how much the children loved Jesus and to see how much they actually knew about the bible! It was incredible! I am learning so much from the people here and I am loving every minute.

Miss you all and God bless you!

Love Kristen