122 Days in Europe: Met da baby!

Day 76: Sorry means Sorry!

So last night I could not for the life of me fall asleep....Therefore I was up until 4 am watching "The Voice", yep now addicted! Dang you television for creating addicting television shows.....but anyway day 76 started this morning at 10:30 with brunch. It was really good and filling as we weren't going to eat again until after volunteering. Then we caught a bus out to the Children's farm and met the teachers for the day, Steph and Leon. All Brittany and I had to do was teach the kids how to hold the animals and make sure they didn't strangle them (the kids strangle the baby animals). I was surprised that I understood some of what Leon was telling the kids. Like the mom and baby cows both have black spots over their eyes and a white snout....and some stuff about chickens. The first group of kids was small so it was really easy. They were really well behaved and one kid kept talking to us in dutch so we said sorry, which only confused him more because sorry is sorry in dutch. He figured it out after his teacher told him we only spoke english that sorry is the same and it might have made his day as he wasn't too big a fan of holding the animals. The next group was a big group of really little kids, in other words, grabbing and holding the animals to death group. I felt so bad for our animals. The kids didn't understand soft touch as that wasn't something they had been exposed to yet and were really loud. Brittany ended up getting bitten by a bunny and a baby chick jumped from a kids lap in an attempt of escape and quite possibly has brain damage now, but we survived because the next group was english speaking! I got to explain to the kids how to actually hold the animals in English! It was like I was home again leading summer camp at the Nature Center. It was really fun! I was so glad that we could interact with the parents and the children. I think my favorite part was when the chicks fell asleep in the kids hands. I had them warm their hands up and make a nest and the chicks actually slept in their hands. It was so darling! We got the guinea pigs out and everything for them because they were so good! After this Brittany and I played with the baby goats and headed back home after three hours of volunteering. I took a glorious nap and then we made quesadillas and fiesta rice, as I call it. I was so full I couldn't move for awhile, definitely had a food baby! After dinner we decided to watch a movie, "Safe House", I was really wanting to see some Ryan Reynolds, man I love him so much! After this I went to bed.