Tuesday, February 8, 2011

This morning Kelsey and I met with Abigail to ask her where her heart is at Queens before showing her our project idea.  It turns out, that her heart is exactly where ours is and she is as excited as we are to start this project! Total God thing, He is defiantly working!  We then met with James and he approved of our plan and arranged to meet with Fred tomorrow to present our idea to him. 

After our meeting, we went to the Malawi History Museum with the Montessori School kids.  It was not like I imagined, but it was fun.  I helped one of the teachers with the younger group of kids.  The tour guide kept it pretty quick because their attention span is so short.  I was bummed because we were not allowed to take pictures inside, but I was able to take some outside.  Once the tour was over we had to sit and wait for the older group of kids to finish with their tour.  The teacher I was helping had to keep taking kids to the bathroom so I was in charge.  At first I was not sure what to do with them, I had twenty pairs of dark eyes staring at me, they do not speak much English and I was completely blanking on what to do.  Thankfully, the thought crossed my mind to play a game, so we played “Duck, Duck, Goose”.  The kids loved it! We played for a half an hour!  After that we sang some songs¸ both in English and Chichewa.  Then we had lunch.  One little girl in our group did not bring a lunch so the teacher asked the class if anyone would like to share some of their food.  EVERY child gave a little bit of their lunch to this girl!  It was SO precious and amazing to see.  It made my heart swell to see the true generosity from these young children.  In the end, the little girl ended up being the child with the most food! It was so sweet. 

On the minibus.

Kids getting tour of a native hut.

 

Kids exploring inside the hut.

 

A native hut.

 

 

The kids playing duck, duck, goose!

The kids playing duck, duck, goose!

In the afternoon Kelsey and I went to town to do some errands.  Our Chichewa teacher recommended that we get a novel in Chichewa to learn the language faster.  As we headed to town, the idea struck me that I should just get a Bible in Chichewa!  We ended up running into Black Market Joseph, a nice friend of Maribeth’s, and he helped us find the bookstore so I could buy a Bible.  He was very kind and ended up buying a small decorative tapestry and a necklace from him as a thank you for helping us.  

Once we got home, we found that Althea had left more furniture for us, two couches and another chair.  Now our living room feels like home and we got it just in time for the party we are going to have on Friday.