Volunteering

Since many of you have been asking about the volunteering (the real reason we are here) I thought I might as well post a bit about it, although it seems like we do so many exciting things that that is one of the lesser.

So the program is set up so that we travel to three differnt market on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (respectively) and basically we play with the children there and help them color coloring pages with English words on them. I have tired to make the children traslate the words to help learn the connection. On Mondays we work in the volunteer office and on Wednesday we have a meeting about how volunteering has been going. I don´t think the children are orphan´s, but I do think they are forced to work with their parents at the market at a very young age instead of attending school. They are all very cute and they sit in our laps and we read them stories or they run around and destory us in soccor. Yoni and I are incredibly odd looking here because of our height (we tower over most) but more importantly because of our hair color. We are always exciting when we find another blonde, we usually point and stare.

There are also a couple other volunteers as well. On Friday there was five of us and one man from the volunteer agency. It was the last day for two of the volunteers but I think there will be another one coming on Tuesday maybe... anyways we might only be three for a little. But it is all good and fun.