I went to the orphanage yesterday and spent 20 minutes parading around the local neighbourhood with a 9 year old girl called Becky on my shoulders, singing and waving our hands in the air. It was the funniest thing ever, we were stared at SO much (this is in a really rundown area and so I don't think most of them had seen a white person before, let alone a crazy white girl singing, dancing and with a black child on her shoulders) and I returned to the orphanage feeling like the Pied Piper, with 20-30 random children dancing after me. Love it :)
School is also SO good, I feel so close to some of the children and I have been learning all their songs and clapping routines in kiswahili. Today I gave them some paper to draw on out in the sun and they all drew pictures of 'Miss Zoe', writing underneath 'I love Miss Zoe', or 'Miss Zoy', in some cases, in cute handwriting. We also discovered that the children play imaginary games based around us, one girl acting as 'Miss Annie', one 'Miss Rebecca' and one 'Miss Zoe'. SO CUTE.
By the way, did I mention that last week a random, scruffy looking man wandered into the school grounds, shook my hand and asked me in an entirely serious voice "Are you God?" This country is hilarious.
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