Today, as always I started my day out with an Orphanage. Mondays and Wednesdays we go to Carlos which is fully and overly supported by many NGOs and organizations. Tuesdays and Thursdays I go to LMP which is not supported by anything hardly. I secretly like LMP better because there are more little ones and they love giving hugs and being held. At Carlos it is a lot of older children who would rather not be learning or doing anything. (But they do wear diapers at carlos. The only place I've seen a baby wear a diaper) So today is Thursday so we went over to LMP. (On Tuesday an orphan bit me while I was there...) We tried to take a taptap (Basically a mini toyota truck which built in benches in the cab with a hood, painted in bright colors. Usually with jesus written on the windshield.) but we got on the wrong one and ended up walking a bit far to get there. We walked in and the main door is a garage door, but it slides over instead of going up (since there is no roof) So we slide the door open, walk in, get bombarded by children (Usual and my favorite greeting) Well right after I pick up a child and have two others pulling at my leg a lady comes up and says Bonjou! gives me a kiss on the cheek and moves on to Nicola (girl I'm with) and does the same to her. I've never seen her at the orphanage before, but I just shrugged it off. She then looks at nicola who has dirt on her shoulder from an orphan and takes her water plastic pouch (thats the only clean way they sell water) and starts cleaning her shoulder. Rubbing water on her face. Then she looks at my and starts doing the same. Rubbing water all over. Touching me everywhere, starts cleaning my legs intensely. While she is on the floor bathing me, Nicola has moved on and started getting out our activity for the kids. The lady turns over looks at our bag of markers, grabs it puts it in her backpack and then stands up. At this moment the lady that runs the Orphanage notices her and shoo's her out. Apparently shes mentally crazy.... We just stood there and let this all happen. We tell the owner that crazy lady took our marker bag, and the WHOLE orphanage tracks her down and gets it back ten minutes later. Interesting day. I got bathed and mugged by a crazy lady.
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