I wanted to share the main reason we went to Africa. We went to serve the widows and most importantly the children of Malawi. Some of them were orphaned and some were just children looking for someone to care about them. My awesome team poured out enough love for those kids to hopefully fill them for a little while. The children there love to smile. They also love to have their picture taken. If they see you get your camera out they will watch your every move and try to work their way somehow into your picture. Then they want to see what it looks like. They never get a chance to see what they look so when they see themselves in a picture it brings them sheer delight. I also noticed that they love to strike poses for the camera. Of course the boys strike a superhero/warrior pose. Blake would get along great with these boys.
These boys got more used to me as the week went on. They are all students at the Acts III Montessori school. By the end of the week one of the boys would run up and give me a huge hug each day he saw me.
This is Mikey, Obusa Brown's son. He didn't like us at first, but even he warmed up to us by the end of the week. I got a real kick watching him cruise around the campus trying to play with the older kids.
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