Cecilia's Gan

Today I went to Cecilia's Gan for my first official day of volunteering.  In the morning before I arrived, however, a man named Shai working with a premilitary program called me and wanted to do some volunteering with a group of his chanichim in Arad with the Sudanese.  I'm pretty sure they're going to end up painting a mural over some graffiti somewhere with Sudanese in the community on December 16th, it should be pretty good.  Anywho, Cecilia's Gan was excellent: not only did she give me some breakfast two hours in, but the kids were all very excited and fun-loving.  I did, of course, have to get a couple of them to stop crying, but most of them just wanted to know what my ears or eyes or chin or nose were called, and wanted to be picked up.  Here are several funny things that happened with the children today:

they consistently drooled, anywhere and everywhere
when I took them outside to a playground nearby, one of them just picked up a fistful of sand and ate it
one kid accidentally ran into another and then that one hit their head against a wall behind them
a kid touched my hair and then immediately screamed
two girls kept hitting my butt until I turned around, then ran away screaming--one of the girls hit me once in the nuts while I was turned around

All in all, it was a pretty good day. Garin Tzedek was also given Tuesday nights as a weekly night to plan activities, which should be excellent.  I have to go clean up a bit now, because we have mifgash dira soon, but I hope you have a good one!