We were happy to discover that we would be
having a roommate from California/Colorado (she moved to Colorado 5 days before
coming to Africa) named Emily until November.
After arriving, we got a tour of the compound from Amy. She informed us of the fact that the vast
majority of the children are in their home villages right now visiting with
relatives for the summer. They will be
returning at the end of this week as school starts in October. Amy said that she wanted to be sure to save
the babies[1]
for the end of our tour, because we would not want to leave their cage.
During the past week, we have spent most of
our time working with (actually playing with) the babies. This gives us time to get acclimated to their
time, their culture, and their lifestyle before starting the work that we have
been assigned.
We were able to work on our first TOMS
shoes distributionon Saturday, which was Bekah’s birthday. Some people from the US embassy came down
from the capital and assisted us. It was
really nice to be able to talk with them and actually understand what they were
saying. For the distribution, we went to
a nearby village and distributed about 460 shoes to children that needed them. We were shoe fitters this time, which means
that by the end our thumbs and pointer fingers were sore. It was really cool to see this side of the
TOMS program, as we have both previously purchased their shoes in the
states. Lauren also said that she now
wants to be able to buy more when she gets home.
Here
are some highlights of the baby cage:
They really enjoy playing phone and
photo. This means that we have
conversations on our pretend cellphones and take pretend pictures with our hand
cameras. They get great pleasure in
telling us if the pictures are ‘jolie o no’.
One of the older boys, Galilou, has stated
a new game of put the younger child in the traditional Burkinabe baby wrap and
walk around the baby cage. One of the
younger children will walk around behind the older child with a blanket wrapped
around them. We will try to get a
picture of this to try to upload to the blog.
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