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The kids are always playing with my watch and my rings. They’re just astounded that I wear 6 rings. They ask if they can keep them, but that’s just not feasible. So the bleeding heart that I am, I decided to make bracelets for all the kids at the Clinic. It seemed like a great idea when I made the promise, but then it hit me: That’s a freakin lot of bracelets to make. I ventured to the market in search of yarn and bought blue, yellow, pink, and green. Geraldine has also been begging for a watch, and I realize that its not nice to play favorites but the poor girl is 15 and she deserves a watch, so I bought her a pink watch with flowers on it. It took about 2 weeks to make 24 bracelets (making them mostly on buses due to the many adventures we went on). We’ve been exploring new markets lately, and we stumbled upon one with a bunch of stands selling toys. Its impossible to pass toys and not want to buy them for these kids (immediate “OMG *insert name of child here* WOULD LOVE THAT”). I picked up some toy cell phones with interesting names, a few books and some Spiderman/Princess stickers. Keep in mind that the only toys they have are toys that volunteers have purchased for them, so they get really excited when new things come.
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| sweet pulsera! |
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| I think naughty boy speaks for itself... |
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| check out Geraldine's awesome watch |
I was super excited to give them the bracelets and especially to give Geraldine her watch. I gave Geraldine the watch and I thought I was being pretty secretive, I told her not to tell
anyone and there was nobody else in the room when I did it. Almost instantly Maya comes up to me and asks why Geraldine got something special that she didn’t get. These kids are super observant! I played it off and gave her a princess sticker that was bigger than her head, which did the trick. I was tying bracelets all day. Which color combination to choose is like a life and death decision for them which is really cute. The most popular thing was the cell phones, not so appropriately named “Naughty Boy” and “Modern Girl”. I could barely even get them out of the packages to put the batteries in. They all wanted their own, but they’ve gotta learn to share. That’s one thing I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet—they’re horrible at sharing! I think maybe it’s because of a general lack of individual attention, because if there are no volunteers there to play with them, there’s just simply no one to play with. We broke the cardboard box that holds the toys, and brownie points to Diomedes, he asked to color on it. Gettin’ creative...you go guy.
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| Diomedes getting creative with his toy choice |
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| Flor and Diomedes pretending to share |
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