Daily Reflection Tuesday April 12th

Today was another very long day. We woke up at 6:30 and went to eat breakfast with the children. They were all ready for school. After saying the blessing and then eating with the children we walked them to the school bus. I was not feeling that great but I pushed through and we played with the children at the daycare. We played with them for a few hours and I watched the 1-3 years olds for a while. Not a lot of them really listen to directions but other than that I felt a strong similarity to Sheltering Arms. I helped them for a few hours, and after I continued to feel worse I went to get some water. That made me feel better. I went across the indoor pavilion looking building and helped the kids in the preschool with their classwork. They were four and five years old and they learn in a Montessori manner. They were definitely further behind than the Pre-Kindergardeners at Sheltering Arms. After that we went to get lunch with the woman who now lives here and another volunteer who has been here for a month. We went to this really good restaurant in an area about ten minutes walking distance away. We talked and heard about different tips and important things we should know about the orphanage.

After we walked back we had a little down time while the kids were still at school and we researched locations in Belize. The heat was getting to me but again I kept drinking water and pushed through it. Finally the children got home from school and we played with them for hours. There were a few kids I am really starting to bond with, they are awesome. I also helped them with their homework and then some got washed up for dinner. I played jump rope with this one adorable little boy and I played basketball with other children as well. After hours of playing in the humidity it was time for dinner. Unfortunately I could not make it this evening to dinner because my health continued to decline. I did not want to stay around the children because I did not want to get them sick. Hopefully its nothing too serious. Hopefully by tomorrow I will feel good to go! My number one priority right now is my health and these incredible children that I have the pleasure of getting to know over the past few days.  After that I blogged and researched more cool locations in Belize. Then I logged about my long day.
Other than my little health mishap I think that today was really good. Something really hard that happened was when we were playing with the children this one beautiful little girl asked me if I had a mom. This was a question I did not really know how to answer, but I do a have a wonderful, amazing mom so I quietly said "yes". After that she responded with, "I do not have a mom, she is in heaven." Then I changed the subject but in this moment my stomach dropped because I am quickly realizing how lucky I am in all aspects of my life. I can not wait for tomorrow and hopefully I will be back to normal :)!