Helping Out

We found a multi- cultural center only a block away from where we live! Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday my dad, brother and I head over there to help out and play with the orphans. It's a great program actually. From 2-5 in the afternoon the kids come to the multi cultural center and are served soup. They also get help with their homework, and play games.

On Wednesdays and Fridays, my dad and I teach a couple of 6th graders guitar. They pick up things really fast, and for not ever using a metronome, they stay in tempo with each other quite well! I even started bringing in my violin, which they had never seen or heard before. Turns out I'm the only violin in the entire northern region of Namibia!

I recently taught the kids to play one of my favorite games, which they all enjoyed a lot! The game is called Rock Paper Scissors Shoe: Anything You Wanna Do. I learned it while I was in the Amazon jungle two years ago, and it is quite similar to the normal game, except you can be anything you come up with. Not just paper rock and scissors. All the kids got involved,whether they were playing against me, or voting on whether a springbok or a gemsbok would win in a duel!

(I apologize for not having any pictures for this post, but when we head over there, we're usually busy!)