Hello all, I know I have not wrote in a few days but I have been so busy. On Tuesday my first day of my internship we left really early to drop everyone off. . we first had to drop off Sara at another non profit organization working with kids and widows. We went into this village, our van barely fit! But when we finally arrived all the kids were praying outside, it was very touching.  We dropped her, got a little lost but the finally we got dropped off. I am working with a girl named Bethany, so when we got there Bethany and I sat around for a while waiting for the office to figure out what were going to be doing and to sort things out. We learned that SOS children village takes in orphans who don’t have parents (most parents have died from hiv/aids which then mean most of the kids are infected also). They are raised in the village, they have housed for the kids and they are lead by a host mother. This is a lady who is usually older and willing to give up her life to raise these children in need. There are about 18  houses and each house had around 12 kids from the age 0-15. There are houses in the village for older boys to live on their own and off village houses to girls to live. The SOS organization will school the children and prepare them for college and help them pay, or help them start their own business.

After we finally found out what we could do we could they took us to a house and we played with the little kids (all the older kids are still in school taking exam since they are going on what we would call summer break). All the mothers had a meeting so about 20 of the little kids came over to this small house and we basically just watched them. The do not know English well yet but it was weird because we still communicated and had a lot of fun. We then went outside to the middle of the play ground. the kids loved us! They called us mazunga, which means white or lite skinned. Every little kid wanted the attention. I was basically a jungle gym for them. but loved every minute of it.

The kids did not have much, their closes were rugged, and they had small housed but one thing they were not lacking were happy spirits. Even they are living unfortunate lives they are living it to the fullest they possibly can. Like any group of little kids there was the bad trouble maker (of course he was my favorite). It almost forgot I was in Africa with under privilege children and though I was at summer camp or something.
This is what I think I will be doing my whole internship. I am ok with that though. The head lady wants us to put on organized events with the different age groups. So the second day we worked with the older girls for about a hour about self esteem. I typed up some questions and some things I can talk about, but when I went to open the document I could not print it. So we basically were just winging it, but it worked out.
On Thursday (my second day being at the village) it was so great that the kids remembered us, and were excited to see us!

After they day is over and we go to dinner I am done- I have NO ENERGY.