9.10, 9.11, 9.12

All is well, still trying to adjust. I wake up at about 3 every morning and then fall back asleep about 45 min later.
There are 6 homes here for the orphans. There are about 4 to 6 kids in each home. Each home has its own parents or mom that is in charge of their own children.
This week a counselor from the states will be coming in and leading a class that will help the moms help suit them to raising kids with traumatic backgrounds. Just about all of the kids come from some sort or other distressing experiences.
So while the moms are busy in this class from 2 to 5, another intern and I have been watching the kids. Monday we took the kids mountain biking. About 15 of the kids went, since most of the kids are gone due to the holidays.
Most of the kids that went had your standard pink bike with white tires, 1 speed and had to pedal backwards for the brakes. Even some of the boys were stuck with these bikes. But not a peep of complaint came from anyone. All aside theses kids were going over terrain that my borrowed mountain bike could barely handle. Long story short we left at 2:30 and were back at about 5, so however far that would take us is how far we went. We stopped once but besides that it was a terrible uphill climb all the way to the top of a mammoth hill. The kids ranged from barely able to ride to 13 yrs old so getting them all to stay together was an obstacle in itself, that and the fact that I’m not the strongest mountain biker but all went well.
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Tuesday the kids wanted to ride bikes again so soar bum aside we road our bikes down to a near by damn and the kids swam and played in the mud. A younger boy named Emanuel went with us this time. When I say younger I mean that I had to help him on his bike and push him to get started. Now stick this boy traveling up and down grass paths about a foot wide, along with rocks and very muddy terrain. But again all aside it was an enjoyment to see him trying to do it and to see how excited he was that he just got to go..
I have taken some photos but flickr is being really slow in uploading so I gave up but I figured out I needed to change the size of my photos and ill get them uploaded soon.
Moved into my room that I will be staying in the majority of the time, Ill have to take pics to describe. Not too bad just kinda small but ill manage.
Its only 8:30 and I’m thinking about going to bed but getting up early and playing with kids will get me to do that. Ill have time to right a lot its just going to be hard to put it on the internet but ill do my best..
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The kids are brutal with their mountain biking fetish. The one time of the year were there are enough bikes for the children still on the farm, is the time I come. Any chance they get now they want to. And not for little short rides, long drug out excursions. We went to the damn again today and rode our bikes down to the bottom of the waterfall. The ride down wasn’t too bad but the climb back up the 45 degree incline was torcher. It was so steep I literally had to carry my bike up the 500yard mount. After doing so I had to walk about halfway back down and carry two more bike for some of the girls who had a hard enough time just walking up it. So all in all it was a good time. Don’t think I will be able to walk tomorrow but we’ll just see I guess. I did try and talk them out of not going tomorrow but this is there one shot and there is no convincing them. So well just have to see how tomorrow goes.