At VBS this afternoon, you would have thought we pulled up in an ice cream truck with the way kids came flocking towards us when the bus parked beside the playground. We spent the next hour being showed around the park and loved on by whichever of the kids decided to cling to our sides. One little girl named Nancy stuck herself to me as if we had both dressed in Velcro, and so many of us climbed onto the swing set that I'm surprised it didn't collapse.
They were all so enthusiastic, and their attitudes were positively contagious. By the end of the day I think we were all equally reluctant to part ways, but we did with loud promises to see each other tomorrow. Hasta manana!
Noah, Zack and I were unwilling to let the afternoon's fun come to an end, so we broke out a deck of cards and taught the kid that followed us back to the hostel (don't worry, he was supposed to...his mother cooks our food, and she would have been quite upset had we left him at the park) how to play a new card game we call Secret. Abran then surprised us all be winning the first two hands by a landslide. After dinner we taught two of our interpreters to play as well, and something tells me we have not seen the last of our card games....
~written by Samantha Duke and inspired by Noah Bailey
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