I drew up these desk tags for all the kids, to help the next volunteers and to make things seem a little more professional. They each did their own colouring in of the letters and patterns and then I covered them all with contact (and learnt how bad i am with contact) and we Rothana hammed them into their desks for me.

We filled two boards with photos and Polaroids in hope that the following volunteers will be encouraged to do the same. I also have each child a photo of themselves with a letter from me on the back because they are always pestering me about getting the photos they all take of each other.

These two older girls mainly help cook and clean, but occasionally they’ll come out for class or to get their hair braided by yours truly.

I took my little shadow on the back of my bike to school yesterday. I’ve learnt her name is Sopia. She absolutely love it, and made very good friends with the little neighbour girl that loves to prance around the orphanage. Together, they giggled and tried to steal our cameras, ate lots of lolly pops and she was very chuffed about the whole thing…I think her mum was chuffed I was willing to take her off her hands for 2 hours

I bought my Polaroid to class today but the kids didn’t understand the notion “don’t take pictures like a normal camera, this film is expensive”. So I had each and every child running up to me saying “Cher, photo me want!” And all wanting to keep them at the end. I managed to convince them that I needed some to show people in Australia but pinned half of them up at the orphanage.

Borin and I (the director!)

The kids and their crazy chilli candy