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We finished the rest of the long drive to Woleita and spent a few hours taking pictures and video of the kids and played with the toys we brought with us. A beach volleyball that we brought turned out to be a bigger hit with the nannies than the kids! Christy started playing with a group of the kids, but they quickly lost interest until only nannies were left and loving every minute of it!
Most of the kids came from really horrible conditions but they were definitely the happiest of all the kids we've seen so far. Most of the kids looked malnourished as they were obviously not getting enough food to eat and their protruding bellies were a sign that the children were starving. Many of them had skin infections, but aside from that you would have no way of knowing how bad off they were because the kids looked so joyful and the nannies showed them so much love. When we had to leave Addis Alam, the caretakers were so happy to see him and were overjoyed to have him back. Although it was very hard to leave him there, we knew that it was a place where he was loved and was happy. Although we were sad to say goodbye to little Addis, we would NOT be lonely for the ride back. We took 4 kids back with us for the 7 hour ride back to Addis Ababa. The baby, Net, just slept the whole time and didn't make a peep the entire ride how which was AWESOME. I couldnt ask for anything more from her :-). Bersufican, 
however, made up for her absence of noise. He was adorable and he knew it. And it has probably helped him get by with a lot in his little life. And not being able to speak his language also allowed him to pretend like he didnt know that he was being bad. He would continue to mess with the 2 sisters we were bringing back and disturb them as they tried to sleep. None of our commands we were trying were working. "Don't do that", "sit down", "PLEASE go to SLEEP!". He didn't understand any of it until I remembered the word for "Stop it". "Bakka!" I said. And that boy's eyes got sooo wide!! Shocked he was. He was disapointed that he could no longer play us like he had been, and we were pleased to finally be able to control the smartest little 3 year old we have ever met.
Most of the kids came from really horrible conditions but they were definitely the happiest of all the kids we've seen so far. Most of the kids looked malnourished as they were obviously not getting enough food to eat and their protruding bellies were a sign that the children were starving. Many of them had skin infections, but aside from that you would have no way of knowing how bad off they were because the kids looked so joyful and the nannies showed them so much love. When we had to leave Addis Alam, the caretakers were so happy to see him and were overjoyed to have him back. Although it was very hard to leave him there, we knew that it was a place where he was loved and was happy. Although we were sad to say goodbye to little Addis, we would NOT be lonely for the ride back. We took 4 kids back with us for the 7 hour ride back to Addis Ababa. The baby, Net, just slept the whole time and didn't make a peep the entire ride how which was AWESOME. I couldnt ask for anything more from her :-). Bersufican, 
however, made up for her absence of noise. He was adorable and he knew it. And it has probably helped him get by with a lot in his little life. And not being able to speak his language also allowed him to pretend like he didnt know that he was being bad. He would continue to mess with the 2 sisters we were bringing back and disturb them as they tried to sleep. None of our commands we were trying were working. "Don't do that", "sit down", "PLEASE go to SLEEP!". He didn't understand any of it until I remembered the word for "Stop it". "Bakka!" I said. And that boy's eyes got sooo wide!! Shocked he was. He was disapointed that he could no longer play us like he had been, and we were pleased to finally be able to control the smartest little 3 year old we have ever met.
1 comments:
Just goes to prove that kids will be kids no matter if they are from a big metropolis or a teeny tiny village in a third-world country.
Angela @ CCI
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