Today I finally made it out to Mother Theresa's orphanage. It is the orphanage run by Sister Hellen, a teacher at Layibi college I met last summer. There is a deaf population there and one of the teachers in our group knows sign language. I went today with Karen, our T/Ex intern. Karen is pretty amazing. She is in her last year of university and she is one of the most caring and thoughtful people I have ever met and she gives great messages (although Tim gives the best!)
When we got there we felt a little lost. The other teachers all had a niche, the Sassers are super athletic so they were playing sports with the kids. Jenny and Amanda were reading / signing a book for another group of students, but Karen and I were at a loss. What could we offer?
That is when the inspiration cloud struck! Bam! Dancing!! Karen and I both really, really love dancing. I started teaching the kids how to do the basic salsa step and we had the girls show us some Acoli dancing. This is when we met Kevin. (Kevin is a girl's name in Gulu.) Kevin quickly became our team leader / organizer, she got us towels to wrap around our waist, drums and created choreography. She is in P5 (5th grade) and is so intelligent and sweet.
We danced with the girls for an hour and then it was dinner time so we headed home promising to come back. Today felt like a bit of redemption after the horrible events of the previous day.
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