On Saturday we went to a local orphanage from 9 to 11 with the Global Year Team, Deborah, and her friend Audrey who is a full time missionary down here from Kansas City, she's a Royals and Chiefs fan, whodathunkit! Anyway, this orphanage is funded by a Swiss lady and her husband and mainly ran by a local couple. There were approximately 30 kids of all ages, including Mike and Ike's future son, Brian. They formed a bond, (Brian is the one in the picture with Mike and Ike). We played around, I carried them around, apparently I am now the "Gringo Tree", NutMeg is very creative. We rode bikes, played soccer, played monkey in the middle, and Mike taught the kids how to throw a paper airplane, so they had tournaments. There was a little boy with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome named Josue, he was insanely sweet, the orphanage had built a walker for him in the past so now he can walk and he gave us all tours around the orphanage. My little buddy Santos had allot of fun learning how to work my camera, he took pictures instead of videos for allot of his pictures and he almost deleted all of the pictures and videos before I imported them soooooooooooo we dodged a bullet there, but he was awesome and followed me around. The little kid opening the gate (they do it themselves for visitors, it's a bad neighborhood so they have barbed wire but that's kinda normal down here) was on my shoulders for monkey in the middle so he'd pin the ball between his hands and my head, I don't think he ever actually used words in either language but he was shrieking with laughter, the kids here are great with sharing and so cool to watch play because they have pure joy. Except Elvin, he wouldn't let me stop playing with him, so maybe not the best example of sharing. Santos is the kid taking pictures of his teeth.
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