Because it's the holidays here, a lot of the children have gone to stay with family or friends, but there are still about 40-50 kids still here so there is a holiday programme so they don't get bored. And today was the volunteer day. So the volunteers had to prepare 2 hours of activities for the kids to do then get the kids to do said activities!
It was all very fun! I'm gonna be honest, I had no idea it was happening until half an hour before becasue someone borrowed the holiday plan from the area where I live and the notice about what was happening was put up in one of the other living areas so most people hadn't a clue, but once it got going it was really fun! I got to look after one of the younger kids who wasn't really allowed to join in for some reason so I took her round all the different activities and when the other kids had gone I let her play: things like appple bobbing and 3 legged races! Then at the end we had a 'food festival' thing. Basically it was just bags of paint powder (you add water then it becomes paint-only we didn't add water) and on the count of 3 all the kids threw the powder in the air...and at each other...and at us :) I think it was supposed to be like in India when they have a food festival and throw colouored flour. So it was all very fun...and now I look like I have a wierd skin condition because I had yellow paint powder on my hands and it stained my skin slightly so my hands look jaundiced!
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