Youth Day at New Day!

Sorry my blogs are a little out of order – was waiting on wifi to post some, which we now have – YAY!

Saturday morning we woke up to Laurie fixing us coffee and chocolate chip waffles since we spent the night at her and Wes’ house Friday night.  Can you say SPOILED? Her waffles are THE BEST (I ate 3….).  Anyway, after breakfast with them and praying for each other, it was time to set everything up for Youth Day.  This is another national holiday in Zambia that falls on March 12^th.  Jamme, Kailyn, Mal and I planned some fun activities; basically it was a field day. 

We divided the kids up into teams: orange, yellow, white, and blue (my team!).

The teams on the field.  Notice the cows casually strolling by. 

For the first event, they had to spin around a bat 5 x, put on some of Papa Wes’ clothes, jump rope 5 x in them, take them off and run back.  You can imagine how hilarious this was with the little kids attempting to run, let alone jump, in XL clothing. 

Mal helping sweet Agnes (Aggie)

Axer losing the shorts as she jumped

Luumono spinning around the bat

Emmanuel jumping rope - one of my favorite pics

                Second, they had to do a wheelbarrow race – always fun to watch.

Emma wanted in on the fun 

Third, was the three-legged race.  Their teamwork was amazing. 

Caedmon and Emmanuel

Lastly, they had to spin around the bat TEN times then fill a cup with water and run it back to their team without spilling it to dump on the next person’s head.  This lasted until one of the kids got too dizzy, so we took the bat out of the equation.

Ben pouring water on Cambree 

Muchoni booking it - go blue team!

We totaled points and my team won! Go blue team! 

Papa Wes then dumped water on their unsuspecting heads. 

After that we had a water balloon toss.  The adults competed as well.  Each match ended with a tie, but in the reigning champs, Papa Wes and Elizabeth (Mama Liz), won the championship, again.

Caedmon and Misheck were awesome 

Aaaaaaand Mal and I are out 

I have to say, the highlight of the day was the water dunk.  Blu rigged a water-dumping apparatus up and all the kids got to throw balls at the target to dump water on their house mothers and/or teachers heads.  They loved it and the water was COLD.

Laurie (Mama Lala)

Elizabeth (Mama Liz)

Mama and Papa Tembo 

Blu and Darbi

Hilda

Papa Wes

Even Kailyn joined in!

All in all, it was a VERY fun day with games all morning and Kids Club that afternoon.  These kids never lose their energy and I just pray for the strength to keep up.

  I love you, O Lord, my strength.  Psalm 18:1

Ma gurl Aggie