Orphan Week

After many years of telling the children, "be grateful that you even have food to eat." "Don't complain that you are too hot, at least you have a bed to sleep in." "Would you rather be an orphan and live on the street where you have no one, no brothers or sisters..." I decided to give the kids a practical example/personal lesson on gratefulness and what it's like (somewhat) to be an orphan!

This week we are on orphan rations, sleep like orphans, wear orphan clothes and wash them by hand. We do orphan jobs and play with orphan toys!

This cute little orphan doesn't seem to care about much as long as he gets something in his mouth every once in a while~

I gave the kids ONE bike and a scooter to share. One of the orphan masters is seen here helping get the bike up and running once again! A bike goes through a LOT when you have several children fighting, I mean playing over it!
After walking around all day with "Nothing-to-do" the kids asked Dad to play sharks and minnows with them. They really had a good time and 'enjoyed' each other!
Orphans don't use utensils (at least not at the orphanage that our relatives visited and we got our information from)... and they eat outside on the concrete or dirt. They typically don't have such a nice camping chair to sit in but we made a little exception for this cute little Orphan!
Orphans play with plastic bags and tie rocks to them. We threw them up in the air and had them land like a parachute... This parachute got stuck in a gutter on the way down!


Each 'orphan' is required to wash his/her own dish for three reasons:

1. So the 'orphan master' (me) doesn't have to do it.

2. So that you have something to drink out of when you are done eating!!! YEP, you heard me, Orphans don't use cups, they drink out of their special dish!

3. So they aren't eating off of dried old food for their next meal!
At the end of their first day of eating rice THREE times a day with a little sauce on it they got a treat of a little chicken with dinner!!!! Yep, several bites of chicken was a TREAT.
More later as we show you how orphans sleep and how they wash their clothes and a few more creative games they play..................