This past week I had a neat time, spending every morning at the orphanage teaching 19 kids ranging from the ages of 3 - 7, none of which can understand/speak English very well. It was a lot more challenging to try to teach things to them....but at the same time, a lot less stressful because they are so young, so it's okay if some of them just weren't quite ready to understand certain concepts.
The change of environment left me feeling a bit more like a missionary (since I guess life at Sakeji has just become normal now), and seeing the need for more long term workers at the orphanage left me wanting to somehow fill that need some day.
Those kids at the orphanage, however naughty and mischievous, have a big part of my heart, and it has been lots of fun to spend so much time with them, as the break has allowed me the time to do that. Yesterday as I left the orphanage, Alex, one of the children said, "See you tomorrow?", something that I said every day when I left this week.
I am definitely ready for the Sakeji students to come back this Tuesday, and to be back into my hectic term schedule again, but I'm grateful for the other ministries that I was able to be a part of during break.
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