Saying Bye for Now

Hanging Out Listening to Music

My time at Lily wrapped up quickly.   I can’t believe how fast a month and a half went. Though I knew it would at the same time.   I remember thinking “Oh man this holiday is going to go by fast and the school year will be here before I know it!”  Yeah and now it’s January 20th and school starts tomorrow! What!?!

Another day listening to music

I seem to be a person who does not like big changes.  I knew months ago that I would be coming back to the farm, but being at Lily felt more like home.  Not that the farm is not home, but because I have learned over the past 5.5 years that I am someone who likes being around people and I have a fear of missing out.  And before I did not realize the friendships, people and things I was missing out on at Lily (Only 15 minutes away).  But now I do and it makes being here more difficult. 

But for now I want to share about some of good times I got to have with the kids and volunteers.   I got the chance last week to go to church with Prisca (The German volunteer), Candace (The American volunteer) and a few of the  high school students.  This was a great opportunity to hangout with some of the youth.  We first went grocery shopping to get a few things (mostly for the movies nights we were going to have with them), then we headed to McD’s for milk shakes and fries! I had not had McDonald’s since I  was in Germany on my layover.  After we went to a Baptist church for their evening service.

The movie nights we had were for the high school students.  They seemed to enjoy them!  They watched Aeon Flux, Red Dawn and Leap Year.  Even though you are just watching a movie it was nice to hangout with them.

Wednesday’s are volunteers day off so in the afternoon we all went into the city and had supper together and got groceries.  It was a great time to connect with each other and just to be away from the village for a little while.

On Saturday evening again all the volunteers went to the Tala Restaurant together.  Tala is the game park that is connected to the orphanage.  So to get there we had to drive through and so we saw a few different animals!  Zebras, hippos, giraffe, lots of different kinds of deer types, and ostriches. This was also a nice time to visit and chat with people.

Some other moments that I want to make sure I remember is getting into a water fight with some of the kids on a really hot day.  First it was the little kids and then it died out and everyone dried off.  But then there was a group of older kids who decided it was their turn and even though I never went over by the tap or had any water bottle for defence I got completely drenched.  Than after most of me dried, except for the part of my pants where my shirt hung over and when I lifted it up on of the kids asked if I ‘wee weeed!’ And then started shouting Ms. Rebecca wee weeed!  haha It was funny.

We put on music for the kids to all listen and dance to one afternoon and they all danced for about 2.5 hours just playing different songs and dancing their hearts out!

Until next time...Remember to enjoy the things in life in real time rather than through a camera lens!