January 4, 2015 Buckets and Buckets of Water

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By Montana Herman

When I found out that one of the afternoons here at Eagle's Nest Orphanage was going to be spent at the pool with all of the kids I was excited, yet also prepared for a lot of chaos. And that is exactly what happened this afternoon.

After lunch today our whole team went up to the children’s home to prepare them all for the pool, and also teach them safety rules (very few of which were actually followed). After talking to them about that, a small group of the kids went down to the pool, while the rest of the kids stayed to make pool crafts out of sponges. Sophia came up with these ideas for the kids so they would have little toys to play with and throw around while in the pool. One of the crafts was a little boat made out of sponge, popsicle sticks, and duct tape. The other were little sponge balls made by rubber banding strips of sponge together. These were great for tossing back and forth with the kids across the pool.

Another huge hit with all of the children today were the hundreds of water balloons that the team spent filling up this morning, most of them were thrown, smashed, or splashed within the first fifteen minutes of getting there. The kids has a blast running around and chasing each other with the balloons. There were also lots of bubbles that the kids enjoyed running around after, as well as sidewalk chalk to doodle with.

The most interesting part of the entire afternoon was most definitely the efforts of some of the older boys here to push all of our team into the pool at one point or another. Or our team’s efforts to push the boys into the pool as well. All afternoon it was sort of an ongoing battle between us all. Soon enough though, the boys got creative and started throwing buckets of water on us, as opposed to just pushing us in, so they could get us wet from anywhere as opposed to just by the pool. But it always seemed like as you would be filling up your bucket to throw it on someone, someone else would come by and push you in!

All in all, it was a very successful day for all involved, and I hope it was a way for us to be able to get the kids to do something different (and a little more fun) than their usual Sunday afternoon activities.