Yesterday was my first Serve the City event of 2012 and it was so much fun. We went to the homeless shelter (way out in the middle of nowhere...) and had Valentines Day crafts and games with the kids there. Here in Hungary, they have something called Farsang. How do you describe Farsang?... It's kind of a carnival where you get dressed up in masks of crazy colors and celebrate. I guess it's their equivalent of Mardi Gras? That sounds about right.
Anyway, we had Farsang masks with the kids (I made a rainbow giraffe and I regret not taking a picture of it) so they could wear them when Farsang actually comes around. We also made butterflies with them for Valentines Day. We sang songs in Hungarian and English (I taught them how to do the Hokie Pokie...I'm pretty sure they all thought I was having a seizure since they didn't understand the lyrics. haha). We played some games and then they even showed us their hip hop dances that they had been practicing for months and months. It was so cute. We painted faces too. The boys found out that one girl could do a killer Spiderman face, so in the end there were about half a million Spidermen running around.
It was such a blessing to go there and work with those kids. Even though it was -2 that day (28 F) these kids were running around with no socks and slippers on. It was heart-breaking. And no wonder the majority of the kids were sick. One little girl was so sick and couldn't do anything except just sit in my lap and hold her balloon. But I realized how blessed I am. I have a huge selection of socks and more shoes than I know what to do with. In the next week, I definitely shall be ransacking my closest and seeing what I can get rid of. God has blessed me so I can bless others, not so I can hoard it all. Something I definitely have to keep in check.
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