Gotta Get Down on Friday!

By Nikky Phi

Today was the third day at the work camp! We arrived at the school around 9 in the morning and broke up into two different teams: painting windows/doors and painting the walls. When we arrived, we didn't expect the kids to be up so early and waiting outside the school for us. However, they were up and more excited than ever!

Kids playing games

We immediately started painting, but the kids were so distracting! Each one is so cute and they kept asking us to play. We couldn't resist! My entire team decided to take a break after about 45 minutes of working to play with the kids. Don brought three balls; the first kids to get them wanted to keep them for the entire day, so they buried them under the sand before they went to eat lunch! But when they came back, no one could find the balls! We spent 20 minutes digging through the sand to find them. The kids played catch, frisbee, soccer, and made up games with everything they could find.

After lunch, we had to go back to working and finish painting the window frames before the day ended. Luckily, that didn't take too long, and when we were done, we went back to playing with the kids. We taught them a bunch of different games, but the thing that they loved the most was taking pictures with our cameras and posing for the pictures.
Around five, we all said our goodbyes for the day as our group headed towards the beach. Then we walked back to the hotel and ate dinner there. I can't wait to go back tomorrow and finish the school!