Orphanage

We got up today at 8 to be ready to go at 9 to go to an orphanage where we were going to play games and have lunch with the boys 5 years old and up and then later play with the younger kids 1-5 years old. We got to the orphanage and we were promptly volunteered to play soccer with the boys… These kids were very very good at soccer and out ran us by about 10 times but, we somehow beat the kids and won 3-1… by this point we are all very hot and bothered and need to sit in front of a fan or some AC. Nope… we are then prompted to paint on the walls with the kids in a room that was donated or something by our program. We then sponsored a noodle lunch with the kids and from being so dehydrated and hot I almost couldn’t stomach the food… it wasn’t just me either it was about half of the members of our group that felt this way too. Our Thai buddies then performed some Thai chants and such and then it was our turn to perform so we did the Macarena, the itsy bitsy spider, and head shoulders knees and toes. We also bought some ping-pong tables for the kids to play on so we then played some intense ping pong and some volleyball that we also brought with us to play. I have to say that I am not the biggest fan of the 7-12 age group of little boys because they continue to do things when they are told to stop 3,4,5 times and they are incredibly disrespectful towards all of us that are there and the teachers that are running this program. All in all I really did not enjoy this part of the orphanage but the next part was probably the coolest thing we have done thus far in a community service way...

We then went to the toddler cafeteria where the little guys and girls got up from their naps and it was time for milk and cake. Once the milk and the cake was put in front of them they were all very happy and munched on it all very quickly… then we brought out our cameras to take pictures of the cute little kids and they were infatuated with our cameras and wanted to push buttons and see themselves on the screens… when we got up from the tables every single one of the little kids wanted one of us to pick them up and just hold them. It was really sad that all these little kids just wanted to be held and carried around the little play area that we took them too. They for a time most of us had two toddlers in our arms or three crawling all over us starving for attention. We played with them for about an hour and then most of the little guys got tired and they went back to sleep and we all hit the taxis to go to Patriyas house for dinner.

Dinner at Patriyas house was AMAZING and we ate till our hearts content… we then went home and got ready to go to the Monkey club because this is the first night that the curfew has been lifted since we have been to Chang-Mai. The monkey club was crazy and we met people from California, Canada, Dominican Republic, and St. Louis. It was blast and we all got home at about 1 and promptly passed out haha!!!
That’s it for today!