Saturday, November 04, 2006
Wow, so this week went by kind of quickly!
On Monday, we had a Halloween party for some of the kids at Richmond. Tanya, Jess, and I planned and set it up. At first, when all the kids came in [there were only about seven at this point], they didn't seem too interested in what was going on, but they warmed up eventually. We started with the "creepy body parts" game, where you have foods in bags and make the kids guess what body part it's supposed to be. We had peeled grapes (eye balls), the grape skins (skin), cooked spaghetti (intestines), cauliflower (brain), mushy tomato (kidney), popcorn kernels (teeth), and green beans (fingers). Some of the kids didn't want to participate in it, which, you know, I guess it's kind of gross... :P
After that, we played the spider web game. Tanya had made a huge spider web of yarn on one half of the room, then intertwined different colors through it. The kids had to work in teams and choose one color and follow it to the end. Whoever got to the end first, won. Well, they all ended up getting prizes, so it was really for bragging rights, at that point. This is about when they really started having fun. They got to crawl around on the floor and it got them all into it.
Then we had food! We made worms and dirt (chocolate pudding with oreos crumbled on top with gummy worms), cookies decorated with ghosts and pumpkins (out of powdered sugar and food coloring... we did the decorations - and they looked fine - until they got smooshed on the way there...) chips, soda, the left-over grapes, apples and caramel, and candy. This took up a lot of our time, and four more kids came while we were eating. They had gotten stuck in traffic. Jess painted the faces of some of the kids.
Oh, I should mention we were all dressed up, too. Jess was a pirate, Tanya was Daphne from Scoobie Doo, and I was a witch.
After the food, we played one more game - the mummy race. The kids were partnered up again and each had to wrap an entire roll of toilet paper around the legs of their partner, then mummy walk to the other side of the room, and wrap their arms, torsos, and heads and mummy walk back to where they started. It was a lot of fun, and really messy. The other adults there, though, helped to clean up the whole way through, so when it was time to leave after that, the clean up was really quick and easy.
My tonsilitis has pretty much cleared up; I'm not fully 100% yet, but I'm on my way. :) I'm ready to not be sick, now. It's starting to get nicer here, and I don't like being cooped up in my room just because I might get sicker. :P
Not much else has happened this week...
I had a lab report due Friday ... and we had a field trip to the beach to look at snails. I' m not sure what we're doing with the information about the snails, though... And then on Saturday we had another field trip to a different beach ... and we basically just snorkeled and laid out in the sun. Well, I didn't snorkel because they needed wetsuits and that means the water is pretty cold... and, like I said, I'm not 100% and I could hear my mother's voice in the back of my head telling me it wasn't a good idea, so I didn't do it. :P There will be other opportunities, though. I just laid out with Gabriel, Thea, and Rob, instead, and worked on evening out my tan, and subsequently got slightly burned, but it's not too bad.
Anyway, that's about all that's been going on.
Oh! Next weekend, I'm going white water rafting and then doing a day hike called the Tongoriro Crossing, which part of Lord of the Rings was filmed at. I'll take as many pictures as I can! I'm betting there will be more of the hike than the rafting, but it's just a guess. ;P
Ok! I'm going to go do some work and upload some pictures!
:)
On Monday, we had a Halloween party for some of the kids at Richmond. Tanya, Jess, and I planned and set it up. At first, when all the kids came in [there were only about seven at this point], they didn't seem too interested in what was going on, but they warmed up eventually. We started with the "creepy body parts" game, where you have foods in bags and make the kids guess what body part it's supposed to be. We had peeled grapes (eye balls), the grape skins (skin), cooked spaghetti (intestines), cauliflower (brain), mushy tomato (kidney), popcorn kernels (teeth), and green beans (fingers). Some of the kids didn't want to participate in it, which, you know, I guess it's kind of gross... :P
After that, we played the spider web game. Tanya had made a huge spider web of yarn on one half of the room, then intertwined different colors through it. The kids had to work in teams and choose one color and follow it to the end. Whoever got to the end first, won. Well, they all ended up getting prizes, so it was really for bragging rights, at that point. This is about when they really started having fun. They got to crawl around on the floor and it got them all into it.
Then we had food! We made worms and dirt (chocolate pudding with oreos crumbled on top with gummy worms), cookies decorated with ghosts and pumpkins (out of powdered sugar and food coloring... we did the decorations - and they looked fine - until they got smooshed on the way there...) chips, soda, the left-over grapes, apples and caramel, and candy. This took up a lot of our time, and four more kids came while we were eating. They had gotten stuck in traffic. Jess painted the faces of some of the kids.
Oh, I should mention we were all dressed up, too. Jess was a pirate, Tanya was Daphne from Scoobie Doo, and I was a witch.
After the food, we played one more game - the mummy race. The kids were partnered up again and each had to wrap an entire roll of toilet paper around the legs of their partner, then mummy walk to the other side of the room, and wrap their arms, torsos, and heads and mummy walk back to where they started. It was a lot of fun, and really messy. The other adults there, though, helped to clean up the whole way through, so when it was time to leave after that, the clean up was really quick and easy.
My tonsilitis has pretty much cleared up; I'm not fully 100% yet, but I'm on my way. :) I'm ready to not be sick, now. It's starting to get nicer here, and I don't like being cooped up in my room just because I might get sicker. :P
Not much else has happened this week...
I had a lab report due Friday ... and we had a field trip to the beach to look at snails. I' m not sure what we're doing with the information about the snails, though... And then on Saturday we had another field trip to a different beach ... and we basically just snorkeled and laid out in the sun. Well, I didn't snorkel because they needed wetsuits and that means the water is pretty cold... and, like I said, I'm not 100% and I could hear my mother's voice in the back of my head telling me it wasn't a good idea, so I didn't do it. :P There will be other opportunities, though. I just laid out with Gabriel, Thea, and Rob, instead, and worked on evening out my tan, and subsequently got slightly burned, but it's not too bad.
Anyway, that's about all that's been going on.
Oh! Next weekend, I'm going white water rafting and then doing a day hike called the Tongoriro Crossing, which part of Lord of the Rings was filmed at. I'll take as many pictures as I can! I'm betting there will be more of the hike than the rafting, but it's just a guess. ;P
Ok! I'm going to go do some work and upload some pictures!
:)
// posted by Chelcie @ 1:44 PM 
