Never have I sung so much in my life !!! ;) hahaha…but seriously!! We have come up with so many songs and then we sing them straight for 3.5 hours as we go through each group of 6 kids. I literally am a push away from falling on my face by the time we get back to home base and it is hot hot hot and we have been on our A game for hours. It is fun, but so exhausting!! Today we taught the kids a song about the months that I made up to the tune of the books of the Old Testament that we sing in Primary in our church. We go through the months and do hand gestures and then wrap up with “….these are the months of our calendar year.” We taught the kids this today. We reviewed the Days of The Week song and hand gestures and also the Rainbow song. We then worked on our song we are teaching them tomorrow. One of the teachers asked us to come up with a song to fruits. I didn’t know any songs with fruits but I ended up making up one to the I Love the Mountains tune. “I love apple, I love bananas, I love oranges, I love papaya, I love pineapple and watermelon, ….fruits are delicious, fruits are delicious, fruits, fruits, fruits are delicious,…fruits. Well Yvette couldn’t stop singing the song all afternoon. She made a great flyer for the kids to color in of the fruits in the song to help them learn the song. I took a video of her happily singing the song… literally for another 2 hours and then I showed it to her and told her I would post that video if she sang it one more time ;) hahaha. Well, that stopped that song :) We did the rest of the prep for our class tomorrow before we headed out on our community exploration.
With Sarah, one of the leaders of CCS here we walked around the community dropped in on may elderly folks. Each one invited us in or to have a seat. Sarah translated for us in Swahili as we asked them questions. We even taught one of the old ladies our new fruit song! Each time as we were leaving after our visit we gave them a thank you gift of a big bag of sugar. It was actually really interesting activity and amazing how everyone does stop whatever they are doing to visit and be good hosts. I was really impressed that many of the elderly that we visited today live alone and support themselves solely at the ages of 80. one woman makes a living by brewing banana beer. Another elderly couple grow bananas for those that are making the brew. It was a fun outing.
We had John take us into town after to get our juice boxes and lolly pops for our big close out final event at the park with all our kids. We went to a small hole in the wall place that sold us juice boxes in bulk size. That was our last stop. Earlier we went shopping and I bought my girls some cute casual flowy dresses handmade in Tanzania. We also made some copies of our flyer for the kids to color and for us to teach the song with.
This evening we were all kind of delirious and just fired up for some reason. We played a couple hours of cards after dinner and played our 50th round of I Doubt It. Lots of laughs and we even got the really quite volunteer that is in his 50s out of his shell as we talked him into playing with us He was a winner and it was nice to see his shell cracking. I am falling asleep as I type so I am off to med. Looking forward to a strong teaching day tomorrow and it being pretty chill since the kids love to color.
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