Friday Adventures

    6/10/16
          Back to school today! We all got a good nights sleep to recover from the amazing safari and were ready to go back and see the kids! We were once again greeted by all the children as our bus pulled up to the office! I think it's safe to say we were all very excited to see the children's smiling faces again. Everyone also seemed very excited that Jennifer had finally arrived! Today we planned to have some fun with a huge parachute. We played several different games; such as having different groups run and dance under the risen parachute, or having some rubber balls in the middle of the parachute and popping them as high as we could in the air! The kids were laughing hysterically with huge smiles on their faces the whole time. We had to leave the school a little early today because we were invited to a local church, named Malika Church. The choir sang several songs, dancing to every single one of them. They all had such bright and happy faces the entire time as well; the energy was so uplifting and the concert was simply amazing. They even followed us out of the church, singing a goodbye song as they waved farewell! We had to walk a little ways to get back to our bus, but we were joined by lots of local children (which always makes the walks so much more fun).
           We made it back to the lodge by late afternoon and kept on moving. Since tonight was one of the last nights that the North Carolina group will be here, Annie's Lodge threw a goodbye party for them, which we all attended. It was great getting to make more connections and friendships with the girls and are sad to see them leave so soon! We had so much fun though eating some tasty samoosas and dancing the night away with all of our friends!