Full House

Today was a very busy Saturday. The morning started out with middle school clubs. Once a month, we have a two hour activity with a group of middle schoolers. Some of the clubs went on a hike, learned to knit, and made Christmas cards, among other things. Beth had a club that made friendship bracelets. It was a great opportunity for the students to get out of their dorms and into a real home. Beth's club was a great success. The kids had chips to eat and soda pop to drink and made some woven bracelets and some beaded ones.

Dave's group was also very successful. Of course, anything entitled "The Play Station Club" can't be all bad. Dave went to our friend Jared's house to play Guitar Hero for two hours with a dozen middle school boys. The kids all had their Play Station Portable games with them, as well, to keep busy while waiting for their turn at the guitar. It was a fun time hanging out with kids outside of the school.

After a quick lunch at a cafe in the bazaar, we went back home to prepare for our next visitors. We invited our advisor group over for dinner and games tonight. These are the ten sixth-graders that are our homeroom in the middle school. We walked down to the dorms (quite a hike from our house) at about 5:00 pm to get the kids. Unfortunately, some of the boys were out at a soccer match that went late. We walked the other six kids up to our house, but we took turns having them blindfolded and being led by their classmates. It was a fun "trust walk" up the hill and only a few kids got led into light poles.

After we got the first six kids up to our house, we got a call that the soccer crew was back. So Dave walked all the way back down to the dorms to pick them up. This wasn't so bad, but the walk back up was hard with exuberant sixth grade boys. Beth had remained at home with the other six while cooking a feast of spaghetti, fruit salad, garlic bread, and ice cream for dessert. Our students could not stop raving about how wonderful all the food was. We just kind of looked at each other and said, "It's just spaghetti?" The boarding students really appreciate being out of the dorms for a few hours and eating something besides cafeteria food. We were glad to help because it was loads of fun.

Hopefully, we'll be able to have them all over again, soon.

Dave and Beth