This week the kids were doing African drumming and dancing at the center. There's always a big crowd watching on the steps, which are raised above the drummers, with a porch and entrance to the center above and behind the steps. We were sitting on the stairs watching, and some of the smaller village kids were playing with a beach ball behind us. Sometimes it would roll or fly onto innocent spectators.
Out of the corner of my eye, I catch one of the babies (eighteen months, maybe) tinkle right on the porch and make a big puddle. [see post on trash]
With the drumming and dancing still going on, the other kids continue throwing/rolling the beach ball on the porch. Totally grossed out, I caught the eye of Katie, a fellow volunteer, and we dissolved into laughter as we tried to dodge the ball that was now covered in tinkle. And so was born the game known as Tinkleball.
T.I.A. (This Is Africa)
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