At the end of the party all the kids got a little present...What a day!
Sorry, but our internet connection in the internet café was really slow last week so I didn’t get to update the blog…
Wednesday Dorothea (the wife of Klaus, the leader of the mission’s team of the ETB) and I went to the Kalong-ZIGEUNER who had just arrived at Dourados. It was a really cool experience. We were welcomed with arms wide opened and the story (about Bartholomew) that Dorothea always tells the kids even touched the adults. The Kids there looked really abandoned, with hair like Albert Einstein and quite dirty…but they were all so cute and so easily entertained! When it was time for us to go home the grandma of the group told us that we are always welcome in their camp!
The middle group guys all got a remote control car
The rest of the week was one big preparation for the kid’s party on Friday. We threw a huge party for the kids, with balloons, cake, games, theatre and everything a party can’t be missing. It was really exhausting, but the kids looooved it! In the end everyone got a little present and it was awesome to see how a little gift like that can make a kid feel so happy! All the presents were from Paraguay and therefore the quality was really not the best…but the kids didn’t even care!!!
Who is childish now!?
Thursday this week the teachers of the public school didn’t want to teach anymore so they took the rest of the week off and we had a full house! We couldn’t offer the courses, because who would take care of the extra 50 kids around the crèche? So we started the soap-soccer…It’s just a huge plastic mat we extendet on our soccer field, put some washing powder and water on it and the kids could start running (and sliding)! It was a lot of fun for the kids as well as for the adults! Towards the end some of us were bathed in the huge mud puddle on the side…but luckily Simon and I were already on our way to our very last Portuguese lesson by that time!
More next week…stay tuned,
Dominik
