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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm helping out at the NGO's orphanage in the afternoons. On Easter weekend we helped the children prepare a couple of songs (and exchanged a couple of English songs for Swahili songs, they were VERY amused at our singing of 'head, shoulders, knees and toes') to sing to the lodge guests at lunch. After lunch we had an easter egg hunt and water fight.
Learning songs
The older kids are passionate about football, and they have their own football field. Anja and I headed down for a game of football this afternoon; all good fun. I was just a little bit lacking in the area of technique, but I made up for it with my enthusiasm...
Football skills practise
I love playing with the toddlers, and there are a LOT of them (around 13). We've invented our own makeshift game of 'sleeping lions.' Basically I wander around chanting 'watoto lala' (children sleep) and they all have to pretend to sleep. As soon as they 'wake up' I chase them and tickle them. I never knew that they could have so much fun with this; I now have most of the children, including the older ones, chanting 'watoto lala' as they see me approaching the orphanage!
Time for a break and a cuddle
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