Peter, Kenneth, and Joseph are still waiting for their new legs to be complete. As they await patiently and anxiously I have had a great time talking and getting to know them all. Peter and Jopseph are forming an organization to help orphans and street kids. They are also working on helping dissabled children be accepted by the community and their families better. They are all sooo encouraging. Both always emphasize that they are only here by God's plan and hope to serve in in everything.
Tasha and Ryan both arrived and ready to join the work of the team. I had the opportunity to work more in the plaster room helping modify casts and molds. Megan and Tasha work with the patients on rehab and exersices. Megan is teaching the local OT to rehab prosthetic patients with methods she has researched and learned from several sources. We continue to wait for the sockets and new legs to be complete. Until then, we wait.


While the patients wait we decided to administer the outcomes tests, even though they are in their old and unaligned legs. We will use this as comparison data. After we had done all of the tests for all of the patients, I went to transfer the data to the computer. The data was not there!! I freaked out. Tasha saved the day by figuring out the date on the watch was set to march of 2006...haha. We scrolled to that date and found all of the data!!!
At around 4:00 we went to the wards to listen to the worship time. It was soo beautiful. All of the patients and thier parents were singling praises to the Lord. Their voices are soo beautiful!! I sat in bed with a little girl named Lulu. She was about 4 years old and did not have any sort of a smile. She just sat in her bed in silence with no expression. Her right leg was casted probabley due to cleft foot. After several minutes of warming up to her I finally got her to smile and laugh. We played 'patty cake' for about 10 minutes!! After playing with Lulu I pulled out the balloons!! At first, everyone was timid and did not know what to think of me or the balloons. After about 3 creations, the crowd started to form. I made kids and parents balloon figures for about an hour or so. The favorite creation of all was the Monkey on the Palm Tree!!! It was more of an entertaining show than actually finishing the creation. I hope to go back at least 1 more time to do more balloons.

We ended up having to keep 2 of the patients over the weeknd. There was no possible way to get all 3 legs completed. The work day ends at 6:00 and everyone leaves for the day. We took a break for dinner and then the guys went back to work to complete Kenneth's leg. For dinner we went to the local, and only, resutraunt...Mama Chicoos. The food was amazing!!
After a huge dinner we wnt back to finish up Kenneth's leg. It was finally complete at about 12:30 that night!!