Sunday morning, I of course went to Cecilia's for volunteering. This was the same thing as always, although there were few kids so David and I left early. Here is a quick tour of some of the kids I'm most familiar with:
Raffein is 3 years old. He is very cute and very rowdy, but also a bandit. Whenever one of the other kids is being fed, even if Raffein has already eaten, is eating, or is about to eat, he will come up to them and shove his hand in their food, stuffing fistfuls of it into his mouth. When I tell him to stop, he does not listen, and when I pick him up and hold him away from the food, as soon as I let go he'll go right back. In this regard, he is like a monkey who will not learn his lesson. He also cries with a ferocity whenever anything happens, but only for a second or two. He's a good kid, he's just a troublemaker.
This is Roman. Or, at least I think he is--Cecilia is not sure, and sometimes just calls him "the one in the green." The only game he likes to play with me is running away screaming in a high-pitched laugh as I chase after his nose with my finger. He is a pretty quiet kid aside from this activity, though.
This is Vivian. She is, I think, about 5, and is very moody. One day, I may come in and she will be hyper-excited to see me, jumping on me and demanding that I pick her up, trying to bite me and jumping on my lap every 5 seconds. Another day, I may come in and Vivian will demand to go to the playground nearby (which she is no longer allowed to do), and I will inform her that she cannot and she will then proceed to spend the rest of the day crying. In addition to hitting my cheeks, she also enjoys getting raspberries and being thrown into the air. Also, whenever she wants something, her Hebrew is very rudimentary and she simply asks by saying "Me...this." She wanted water a few weeks ago, so she said "אני מויס" (the second word, "mois," is water in Arabic!)
Anywho, I'll try to introduce more kids later. Sunday after I left the gan, I went to lunch at Petrozelia, a local falafel and shwarma place, with Scott, Nathan, and Jake. Jake has snuck home from Marva after jumping the fence of his base and being fed up with it all. We are still uncertain what exactly will happen to him, but with each passing day the likelihood of it being some legitimate punishment seems to decrease. After lunch, we went back home and I got various different chores done before going to optional class that night. I went to beer pong that night about an hour in with information painted on my chest about the Garin Tzedek meeting on Monday to try to get people to come, and I went in just a bathrobe. It was fun
Today, I did not wake up in time to go to the educational peulah about desert plants--I felt that the hike last week about the subject was much more interesting than several hours in a classroom with the same man could possibly be. In any case, I woke up pretty late and did some work before going to class. Class was pretty good, and I read a very interesting article about immigration for my "Absorbing Immigration" class. Ulpan was also excellent. Almost immediately following class, Nathan and I went to do a sports club thing with the Sudanese youth. We played soccer with them for a good hour on a field in town, and they all seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. After that, I returned home before going to play Balderdash (GREAT game) at Chanya's apartment for a bit, and now I'm about to go to bed. I hope you've had a good day, I know I certainly have!
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