Kate's Perspective: Everyday is my Favorite

           I feel like every day of this trip I have said to Marissa, "This is my favorite day".  And I'm not even lying. There is something about the simple, pure, and unadultured joy about this place that is addicting. I absolutely adore Kids Club. Everyday is pure chaos, you have at least four kids hanging on you (except if you're Cody, the walking jungle gym, in his case he's holding ten kids minimum.), and someone let the little girls know about my hairstyling skills, so I've been doing everyone and their cousin's hair. But if I'm being entirely honest, there is a part of the day I like more than Kid's Club. My favorite part is staff care. It's where we get to bond and make crafts with AIM's staff. The disciples are mostly in their teens and twenties. Although we have a bit of a language barrier some of them speak English quite well. The feeling of peace I get by being with that group is indescribable, and I'm not even sure how to explain it. Worship music plays (in English!!) and everyone just sits in a circle and talks, makes crafts, and sings together. It's so simple and yet I get a calming feeling by just being in the room.
            After five days of scoping it out, figuring out who to ask, and finally getting the guts to ask that person, I have finally found someone willing to teach me how to ride a moto(moped). Actually, that was a lie. I made Marissa ask for me. Anyways, one of AIM's childrens' pastors, a nice guy named Rahtunuk (I don't know how to spell it) agreed to let me use his moto and to teach me how to ride. Poor thing obviously didn't know what he was getting into. Kimloi (Kimmy for short), who is a year younger than me and extremely feisty and fun to be around, drives the moto with me on the back down to the soccer field where Rahtunuk will attempt to teach me how to drive this contraption. They explain the ligistics to me and it seems pretty simple so I give it a go, shoot forward and then proceed to move at a pace of .1miles per hour. I think Rahtunuk gets fed up with me because he has me scoot to the back and then drives me out to a less crowded area of the field. He sends me off again and in my opinion I seem to be doing amazing until I almost drive it into a pond. Thank The Lord Almighty I stopped in time because that sure would have been awkward, and it probably would have scarred him for life. Long story short I need to get me one of those awesome devices because that was definitely more fun than a car.