RAIN, PUPPETS, TREASURES and two kinds of CHANGE
We are still getting lots of rain, but thankfully no more flooding in our storerooms.
We have a new after school activity; Puppets. Twelve of our kids are in a once-a-week class to learn how to use puppets. They will be putting on a show for one and all in a couple of months. They will even be making their own puppets. It is great to see the kids use their creativity and imagination once their hand gets inside a puppet. My good friend Mary (A BGC Missionary) and her friend Diday, are the teachers.
I had five “piggy” banks full of coins that I have been collecting for the past few years. I decided that it was time to do something about them. The kids thought they had discovered a treasure chest when they saw my stash! They had never seen so many coins in one place before. We had a great time, as well as mathematics practice, figuring out just how much money I had! The grand total was over 6,000 pesos (over 12,000 individual coins) - just under $150. The kids are pretty sure that I am rich now……they thought it weird that I called all these coins “change” – they wanted to know what I was going to change it all to!
We have recently said goodbye to some kids… a first hello to others and even got the good news that more will be able to have an adoptive family. This has certainly been a year of change at CSC. Change is good. Both kinds of change.
Speaking of change, I am going to be changing the Island that I live on. I will exchange the island of Cebu (125 miles long and 25 miles wide) for the “Island” of North America. I will have hot running water, a garage door opener, a dryer, grocery stores that I seem to remember have way too many choices, roads that I will be able to drive over 20 miles per hour on, gas stations where I have to pump my own gas, electricity that is reliable, I won’t see naked kids playing on the road side, I will be in a place that I look like I belong (as opposed to being an obvious foreigner here) but in actuality I will feel like a foreigner there ….but I am ready. I am NOT ready to say goodbye here but looking forward to saying hello to my family and friends there. You gotta love change.
Enjoy the photos!
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