Holiday with the Kids!!!

From the 16th of July to the 19th I went on holiday with 11 of the kids i work with and some other volunteers. It was a full on three days of no English, games and movies.
We left on Monday night and travelled 9 hours south by bus. I travelled with one of the Tias (Ladies that run the home) and 5 children. The bus ride took around 8-9 hours, we left at 10pm and arrived Tuesday morning at around 6:30am. I spent half the bus trip beside an old dude who wanted to practice his English so i got his entire life story!!! All i wanted to do was catch some zeds before i very busy holiday but it was not to be. When he had had enough of me correcting him he decided to go to sleep which was a blessing.
Trying to sleep on a bus is not the easiest thing to do though so i didn't sleep very well. When we arrived it was bitterly cold and it had been snowing. The kids were wide awake and ready to play and i felt like i had not slept in a week.

We arrived at our cabins a little out of town and we began to unpack. All the kids rushed and whipped on their snow gear and ran outside. I just wanted to curl up and go to bed but that was no possible. Then i came to the realisation that i had no proper shoes for the snow. I only had my joggers which were not water proof for 3inches of snow.
I headed outside at the call of the two younger girls and ended up being half led, half carrying the two younger ones through the snow.

There was a pool frozen over outside and all the kids were trying to break the ice with rocks etc and of course the two younger ones wanted to join in. We headed over and i was holding one of the back, i turned around for a brief moment and when i turned back in slow motion i watched one of the girls slip onto the ice and slowly slide out on her bum. Luckily another volunteer was there and she grabbed her and pulled her back. It wasn't funny at the time but her face as she slid out was quite humorous, she was half stunned, half confused.

After that heart stopping moment we headed into the dining room for games and breakfast. It was then the other volunteers realised my shoes were little pools of water. They all rushed around to find me some boots and sent me off to the cabins to change my socks and warm my feet. From then on any cough from me they looked concerned and shook their heads and pointed at my feet, quite funny...