children galore

Today I picked some children up from school and then spent the afternoon with them at one of our after-school programs. Here is what I saw and heard:

- a tiny Japanese girl wrestling with a backpack that was probably twice as heavy as she was

- another girl wandering around the playground saying, "Squeak! Squeak!" in a frequency more suited to a dog's hearing range than a human's

- a very trendy-looking boy (if he were older, I might think he was gay) who had a super-villain accent. I think he was from eastern Europe. At the end of our Bible lesson he had this prayer request: "I vould like to prrrray for my glasses, because zey are brrrroke."

- boys playing soccer, and the newly immigrated Chinese boy not only was included with hand gestures, but also wasn't half bad as a goalie even in the face of hard kicks from the popular leader-boy

- lots of rope-jumping and monkey bar stunts

- some remarkably insightful comments by the grade 4 and 5 kids during the Bible lesson. I don't remember any of them right now, but those kids sure have brains in their heads!

...sigh...

But I still kinda miss nunchuks girl.