Hello Family and Friends,
Daniel and I spent Monday evening volunteering at an orphanage. He asked me about 4-5 times if I wanted to go and I said, "no," each time because I didn't. I was irritated that he kept on asking me in the span of a couple of days. If I say I don't want to do something please leave me alone, please! Anyway I thought about it and felt like a horrible person because I did not go workout or do anything outside of the apartment that entire day. Then I pictured myself in the apartment while Daniel was playing with orphans and thought better of going, so I did.
We went to a residential area that was about a 10 minute drive from the base (I practiced for my driving test by looking at the street signs and saying what they meant in my head). So we get to the orphanage which was very clean and seemed sort of like a clean YMCA. The downstairs area we were in was the administrative area and then the basement was like the recreation area. We spent the next hour or so playing a version of "Go Fish," some invented animal learning game, and musical chairs. The "Go Fish" game required that you know various body parts and get 4 matching body parts. They were able to practice their English. The second game required that we pair up and the volunteers read an animal in English and the kids had to run to the back of the room to find the corresponding picture then bring it to us (I'm pretty sure the purpose of this game was to wear them out). Musical chairs was hilarious for the main reason that the music was someone playing the basic melody part of "Heart and Soul" on the piano and then randomly stopping.
About the "gingerbread house"... Actually I just went to the store and got graham crackers which are super flimsy. Anyway, Daniel was nice about cooperating in making one with me. He built it and I decorated. Originally we were each going to build one but I broke like all but 2 crackers I was using to make mine and I think Daniel pitied me so he suggested we make one together, LOL :-D
Daniel doing his thing to make the "gingerbread" house...
There were crumbs and broken pieces everywhere...
Once he was done building he had no interest in decorating...
The finished product :-)
Aerial view
Oh and this is soju. We tried it to say that we tried it since we're here but probably never again, bleh :-P
Love ya,
Camille
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