Today, I was a rockstar...

Today, Kym and I went out to a village school that Kym worked in her very first few months here in Malawi. The school is growing and now has over 700 students from Standard 1-8. The kids absolutely freak out whenver they see us "Mzungu" drive up. They scream, yell, run after us, try to shake our hand, give us high fives, and just mob us.

Well, we were just visiting the staff yesterday because we promised we would.  The director invited us to have lunch with his family, so I was really looking forward to that.  Let me set the scene...

We arrive at 10:15...kids mob us and they take us into a 4 by 3 office with six of us, 2 bookcases, a desks, and about 500 books. HA! (talk about hot and crowded!) So we make small talk with the teachers, have lots of awkward silence, they feed us "biscuits" (cookies) and Fanta, we have some more awkward silence, more small talk...

So, while we are waiting for lunch, Kym and I decided to go to Standard 8 classroom and teach them a really silly song. So, we go and have fun with the kids, and then, as we are headed back to the office, alot of the younger kids start being let out of their classes...

And here's where it got crazy.

Kym and I started out just high fiving the younger kids. Just being silly. There was probably 15 of them.

Then...the other classes started letting out. So, more kids started coming.  As of right now, there are about 100 kids surronding me.  The kids start singing a Malawian song (that I obviously don't know the words to) and I am encased in this tiny circle literally surrounded on all sides by children.

Well, since I don't know the words, I do only what I know to do...I DANCE!

THE KIDS WENT CRAZY! I look up, and there are over 500 kids in a circle around me jumping, laughing, and singing.

Whatever dance move I did, the kids would just scream and go crazy!!
The dust was flying up, the kids were pushing in, and I really felt like I was on stage at a rock concert.

It was AWESOME!

So, I finally start getting out of breath, so I say goodbye, and then a riot ensues.
A teacher starts yelling, "Make a path for her!"
So the kids start parting so I can walk through.

Then, pushing to get closer starts again, and we have huge mobs of kids, falling, pushing me almost to the point of my falling down...until I was finally pulled back up into the office.

It was pandemonium. :)

And of course, I didn't have my camera.....