Lunch Time!

After the supplies were unloaded and the pizza was placed on the tables, all the children sat down on the bench and got ready for prayer. The children joined hands, closed their eyes, and one of the older girls led the prayer. The prayer was extremely long and I had trouble figuring out what she was praying because I couldn't even think of a prayer in English that long. Afterwards, we learned that she had made up the prayer as she went along which I thought was very sweet. Their faith is extremely important to them, and I will go in greater detail about this later in the blog. The children were ecstatic to have pizza for lunch because the majority of their meals were homemade and prepared in a tiny kitchen. The children ate inside while the rest of us ate outside. Either way, we couldn't escape the flies. I have never seen so many insects in my life. They were everywhere and to try to kill them was pointless. The flies were on the food, beds, toys, and children. You name it, there would be at least one fly. Even our bus had about twenty flies in it (maybe they were taking a day trip to see their relatives from the farms). If you ever stayed overnight where the orphanage was located, there is a very good chance that you will be catching flies when you sleep. After our lunch, it started to rain so we hurried on to the bus and left before the road became too muddy. Driving down the road with sunny weather was bad enough, but when it was raining was a different story. Everyone was afraid that we may have to push the bus if it stalled or got stuck in the mud. Thankfully, this didn't happen and we safely made it back to the hotel. After dinner, everyone was exhausted and went to bed to see what the next day would hold.