"children yelling, over there? i mean playing. children playing"

Today was an adventure.

I can't believe I'm not absolutely pooped out after spending almost SEVEN hours playing with little kids, or rather trying to have children's mtg with them and keep them occupied. oh my goodness, it was crazzzzzyyyyy.

kids are so cute and hilarious and troublemakers all at the same time. i'm horrible at attempting to control a group of them. surprisingly, afterwards, phuong was like
"esther, i didn't know you were good with kids because you're usually quiet!"
i was like.. what?!?! haha. i guess half way through the time, me and ruth (who seriously reminds me of the girl in high school musical..) kind of took over and tried to get the kids to play games.. we started playing musical chairs which they liked (ruth was the music, haha!!!) until one of the little boys got hit and started crying :( so sad. i knew that was going to happen. i always hated musical chairs as a child. Anyway, i tried to teach them the watermelon game. ya know, that korean "drinking" (really?) game. they didn't get it. hahaha. but it was fun trying. then we tried to do simon says. but i couldn't think of stuff to make them do so i kept making them do the same things.. and then they were sooo bad at it. so i was like, yeah that was practice. and then we just let them all not get out. and thennn we tried to play skeleton in the closet.. which obviously didn't work cause they're all a bunch of cheaters! haha.

Today a fourth grader got asked his name and he said he didn't know, that he would tell us if he knew, but he didn't. he looked soooo scared.. i think i'm overly sensitive to kids like that :( everyone was like ?!?!?! and i seriously almost cried while sitting there in the midst of the huh? what do you mean? i could feel my face getting warm the way it does when i involuntarily cry.. which hasn't happened in awhile.. usually i cry out of weariness/frustration .. :( and then this other little girl was reallyyyy shy (and sooo cute!) so i almost felt bad asking her what her name was but she was okay with telling me. my mom says it's because i look young. i told her that's also why none of them listen to me.

we lost a football over the fence. during the time when the kids were playing outside.. i mean.. throwing things at each other outside.. oh man.. i really didn't know what to do. we kinda just watched them throw things at each other. lol. at least no one got hurt? so yes, we lost a football over the fence. apparently our church neighbors have been through this before cause when ruth and i walked all the way over to where the condos were, the lady was like, oh yeah, the church? and me and ruth were like .__. she was really nice though.. almost too nice. i wonder if they remember us from when we were naughty little kids.. well.. ya know. she had the cutest puppies. i love how puppies lick your arm cause they like the sweat. speaking of which.. i went running today! yay. i think it's harder to run not on the treadmill. ..