Plans and Life

Saturday we had planned a visit to the orphanage.

 

It didn't go as planned.

 

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon

 

It started out well, Laura and I had spent the week planning the event and the morning arrived. We were both so excited to see the kids and play games with the teenagers at the Orphanage. I got up and got ready, and made sure I had everything I needed by the door. All that was left was to wait for the taxi when I got a call from Laura with bad news. All of the HAS canceled on us! After a few frantic attempts to see if any others were free we decided to go. There were four of us in total. Laura, Marissa, a friend of Laura's Gorge, and myself.

 

We had an even bigger suprise when we got to the orphanage. They not only gathered the teens but all the kids. This meant we had to do a lot of improvising on our part because the games we had planned were not meant for such large groups and creating smaller groups of kids proved to be a somewhat difficult, un-organized and disastrous idea. It was chaotic at best.

 

Eventually, after trying our best to play the games, the kids went off and did their own thing. We split up and hung with the kids, drawing, talking, playing uno, volleyball and soccer.

 

I let a few draw in my notebook and a few more took turn playing the car game on my phone.

 

 

 

 

We talked and laughed until a rummage through my bag by eight year old Maria and six year old Melissa produced a roll of orange painters tape. I soon found my hands secured in front of me and my mouth taped before I was paraded around the courtyard. I am not completely sure what was going on, but the girls had fun dragging me around and I got them to laugh when they untied me and I bowed to each of them, carrying on the charade.

 

 I had a picture of Angelina playing with blocks in my notebook and she found it. She picked it up and looked at it and turned to me and asked, "For me?" I told her she could have it and she held it to her chest and said "Oh! Gracias Darcie!"  before running off and showing it to her mom and the tias. Her reaction and big smile made my night.

 

We hung out for a few hours, just playing games and talking with the kids before we drove home. It was a  good day and a good activity, even if it didn't go as planned.

 

Sometimes life is better than the plans we make.