New Year's day was day five. It has always been a personal tradition of mine to spend this holiday watching football games all day long. Funny, I did not miss not watching them this year. Because we were out until after midnight watching the new year come in we slept a little longer this Thursday morning.
The working part of our trip was over, so, in the morning we all loaded in the bus and drove about an hour to the Westhaven Children's Home. WCH is a home for special-needs people and orphans. Because of the great amount of poverty there are some who just leave their children at WCH to be cared for. Of the special-needs people who are there, a good percentage of them are adults. WHC is supposed to be government funded, but the primary funding is from Christian churches and charitable groups. The home is under-funded so the residents care is modest, but it is good. Those special needs people taught us that, even though their situation is far from normal, they value their lives, being happy and enjoying the time we spent with them.
The afternoon was spent at a community celebration watching a cricket match, exciting at watching grass grow, and a dynamic game of dominoes--they were very animated--they were smoking something interesting. We also visited an early German settlement from the 19th century. It was both an inspiring and interesting day.
Our Father's Love,
Tom
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