Feb 18

Thursday we took the guys to the zoo. Since I’m coming close to the time I’ll be leaving here I was able to spend some of the extra money to sponsor them to go. We were able to take out seven of the kids because we had 7 volunteers that day. We took a lot of the kids that don’t go on outings that often, or who had never been to the zoo before. It was great to take them to experience it for the first time. They all seemed to love it tons, even though a lot of the cages had walls that were too high to see over from the wheelchairs.
Also, Paul (another volunteer with the guys) went out and bought some more swimming tubes so that we could take more of the guys swimming on Fridays. Yesterday worked out really good to because the girls were there and so were the smaller kids from the babies ward. It was like being at a giant pool party for them. I think they really enjoyed having so many people around swimming in the pool. This week we’re going to work on painting with them and some basic English also. I’m looking forward to that now that we have 2 more volunteers and so therefore can spend more time with the guys individually.