Bread and Butter

About three weeks ago, The Buddhist Society had organised a trip to an orphanage for disabled kids. The plan was to sing songs and teach them how to draw, but the plan didn't quite go as intended. When everyone had arrived and it was time to draw something, I had a very happy greeting from some of the orphans. They couldn't speak any languages so I did the best I could to communicate with them. Although, I did not understand anything at all, they were still very kind and friendly. When the drawing started, I took my drawing pad and color pencils out. I was in charge of two kids, one boy and one girl. I gave them color pencils and paper to draw on but they just started scribbling on the paper. At this point it was very hard to teach them to hold the pencil properly and not put it in their mouth. In fact, everyone was having trouble teaching them to draw. So I just followed along with what the two kids were doing. (I'll name the boy Bread and the girl Butter). They scribbled on the left, I scribbled on the right. They simply can not focus on one thing at a time so it was easy to get their attention but easier to lose it. Nevertheless, they were very happy and I was happy so it was all good. You have to just go with the flow with these children. After the first half of the session, it was time to sing songs. Obviously, they couldn't sing but they could make noises in the tone of the lyrics. Bread and Butter didn't really know what was going on so I sang to them. I don't think they knew what I was trying to do but they were very, very happy to hear me sing. Just to clarify, my singing wasn't good, it was just talking. After calming down from all that singing, we all shook hands and hugged one another. As I looked back at them while walking back  home, I could see that they don't get a lot of visitors and were sad when I left. I look forward to the next visit and hopefully Bread and Butter will recognize me.

Butter holding the paper and Bread with the collar shirt.