Past few days of fun

Thursday was such a fun day!

The morning was pretty normal, music, showers and playtime. Then I ate with the staff in the government canteen at lunch and ate chicken feet...that was an experience! The curry sauce was really yummy (and spicy) though so that made up for the feet!

Then over the lunch break the staff started to cook more food, and was told it was for messy play! I was very excited at the prospect of getting messy with the children and seeing their reactions to the mess. It’s great that the staff organised it too. So we took all the children outside and had water tubs, shaving foam, cornflour, tapioca, weird sticky (edible) balls, jelly, iced jelly, mushy paper. Thankfully all but the paper was edible as they were all putting it in their mouths. I started with my camera but very quickly put it away as I was having too much fun getting messy too!

The kids loved it, what kid doesn’t love getting messy?  Well one in particular didn’t. Suchat. He was running away shouting and whenever we threw some mess at him he’d get the hose and hose himself down! It was funny. Even cleaning it all down was good fun. We were soaked afterwards, literally dripping, and I kept finding sticky pink tapioca balls attached to me. We also had the prospect of a trip straight after work and only one of us had thought to bring a change of clothes.

Jew playing with the cornflour stuff

Tee in the small paddling pool

Nutcha and Danielle loving getting all messy and wet

Somsak before he started getting all the edible stuff

So we took Lay and Lotus swimming. Lay was very excited about this before we left and Lotus got excited as we headed towards the gate, out of the orphanage.

However, Lotus wasn’t so keen on the swimming. I think it was all a little bit too much for him. He just clung to one of us, so we didn’t stay in long with him. And Lay’s attention wasn’t much more than that either. But that suited us well as we only had them for two hours and had to give them dinner too. Once the food came out Lotus was much happier. He enjoyed sitting watching some of the Rachawadee girls swimming and we did get a few cheeky wee smiles from him.

 

So it was a great fun day, exhausting but fun. And to make it even better, Emma and I weren’t bothered by any dogs on our cycle back from home group! I was even armed with two sticks to beat them with J .

On Friday afternoon we were outside but a little bit more excitement was added to the garden. Some bikes came out for the children to play on. I ended up taking Lay on two walks around the orphanage grounds, pushing him round on the bikes. We picked up some flowers for our hair as we went along too. It was good fun.