Today was a whole other story though- we had a group of 20 of the most rowdiest, noisiest kids EVER. It didn't help that some of the kids were maybe 3 years old, and that some of the kids kept taking other people's papers and discarding their own because they didn't like how their work turned out, and we had no extra paper...just enough for the group. So some kids started bawling because they weren't keeping track of their sheets of papers and someone had stolen it. To add to that, I just about lost my patience with all of their "No puedo"s (Their "I can'ts") without even trying and "Senorita, ¡¿cómo, cómo, cómo?!" (Miss, how how how?!) while tugging my arm. But these kids aren't often taught patience, waiting their turn, or paying attention so they can attempt to do the work so the fact that in the end, all of them walked away with little origami Pikachus was an accomplishment. Oh, and no pictures from this adventure because it was way too chaotic so there was absolutely no time to stop and say cheese!
On the other hand, the kids at the orphanage are used to us by now and are fairly well behaved and easygoing (except when they don't get their way and start forcing tears...wow, talk about getting trained on being parents! Selena, who is about 12, pulled that on me on Monday when she wanted to have a 2nd turn on the computer but it was time for their dinner. She brought those waterworks out so fast). On Monday we got them on the "new" used computers that the orphanage just received and they were so excited. They don't really get a lot of time or have a lot of experience on computers so we just had them playing around on Paint. Next week we are going to try and get some educational programs on the computers, like Mi Primer Encarta, Pipo (a kids educational game here) or something.
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