Sunday afternoon, we invited kids from Polehan to our house for lunch. We were expecting 7 kids plus 1 family. We ended up having 2 overly-full car loads. Over 20 kids packed into our small house! Some of the girls helped to cook. We lined our porch and served spaghetti for lunch. Many of the kids had never tasted spaghetti before and didn't like it! We ended up ordering Bakso (meatballs) from the street vendor. Here, generally one of the least favorites of Westerners is clearly one of the favorites of local children! But how precious that some of the boys stepped in to wash plenty of dishes! I think that was one of my favorite sights of the day.
We had art projects galore, of course! Card making, painting, rubber stamping, markers, crayons, colored pencils and stickers. I got to teach them how to make pop-up cards! We even had a photo session in my "studio" - a.k.a. the laptop on my side table. Thanks to Photo Booth!
After nearly 5 hours, it was time to go home. Juliana, Wenny and I were exhausted from hosting, but it was the "good" kind of worn out.
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