Monday,
we woke up and Krissy came in with wide eyes an said, “Guys, I just found the
biggest cockroach in our dresser,” then just walked out. I thought it was the funniest, cutest thing
ever and couldn’t help but laugh.
When we
arrived at the orphanage yesterday, we got straight to work and headed to the
house for our manual work. It was hot
and sunny almost to the point of it being unbearable, but it didn’t matter. None of the weather or the conditions were
crossing my mind. All I could think
about was the finished product and what we were doing for the kids. We stripped
the grass and dug the holes and poured the cement and there was that particular
drive that kept pushing me forward knowing what the outcome would be. Thinking
in my mind that the girls would have their own house to sleep in and not have
to be all on that stage made me dig little deeper or get one more bucket. Some say
the journey is better than the outcome, but for this situation, it’s all of the
above and everything in between.
The
last few tuk tuk rides have been very scenic and interesting through my eyes.
At one point, there was this truck full of men behind us and I smiled at them
and they loved it. They would make faces at me and show me their muscles and I
just laughed at them and they laughed at me and I thought it was really fun. Being able to interact with strangers on the
street and having a great experience stood out, because it’s not something that
would happen very often on the streets of America. There was also a boy on his bike while it was
raining. He had taken the button down shirt off his back so he could put it on
his head. It was one of those things that didn’t really make sense but it worked; he didn’t seem to be getting wet,
and he was smiling the whole time.
There
is not one day at the orphanage that we do not have fun, learn something, or
get something done. In the past few days, it has been all three. If we’re not
out sweating and making house, we are in teaching kids colors and reading off
sentences and if it’s not that we are playing games and having matches and
smiling the whole time. The kids are just so full of love and humor and it
could lighten anyone’s days. Yesterday, Niron, Katie, Lavine, and I were
looking through books and saying “this you” ”this you” and Lavine pointed to a
Barbie and said it was Katie. She responded then saying “Oh yes I’m pretty”
which Lavine quickly said “No no.” All of us laughed and just kept doing the
game because each and every one was funny. Lavine has amazing English and he
and I have gotten close so we joke around and have fun. This morning I was
gathering my belongings and grabbed my notebook, opened it, and it flipped to a
random page somewhat in the mddle. On the top it said “I love you Gitte” but
wasn’t very good hand writing, so then was a line and it again said “I love you
Gitte from Lavine” in nearly perfect handwriting. It was the most amazing
feeling I had ever felt. I just read it, got all arm and fuzzy inside, and just
smiled.
Lastly,
something I think about more and more each day is how much I respect and aspire
to be Roat. He is honestly the sweetest and nicest human being there ever was.
Even if he slips up on the slightest thing, “sorry, sorry” and he does
everything he is asked with a smile on his face. Roat is the kind of person
that is talented in so many ways, and can do so many things, and is amazing at
every single one of them. He may not know it now, but he is and will forever be
the one I look up to. He is my mentor.
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