Hello all! Team one just got back from the village this afternoon (Brianna, Amanda, Lindsey, Stephanie, Sammi, Jeff and Spencer). We were at the village for three days and two nights and experienced many firsts for a lot of us. Our first day there started off with us settling into our room then introducing ourselves to the approximately 130 kids participating in the children's camp. The introductions went fairly well except for Spencer accidentally introducing himself as "Spent-Cole" which stuck with the children, and the rest of us as a group joke. We then ate lunch with the kids which was soup that consisted of rice, potatoes and more potatoes. It was also most of the group's first encounter with chunos (for those who don't remember what those are they are the... interesting dehydrated potatoes). After lunch the group went exploring throughout the village where we found a mangy looking scarecrow to take a selfie with. The kids continued on with there camp throughout the day where we played games with them and learned just how much energy they truly have. At the end of the evening we showed three short films to the kids which were about health, hygiene and some other questionable material that left us a little uncomfortable to go to bed after watching. The next day was an early start, we helped serve and eat breakfast with the kids and most of us witnessed our first sheep slaughtering. It started off with some men dragging a sheep through the area where we were eating in and continue to slit its throat as we tried to finish eating our meal. After seeing how intrigued we were (well some of us) at the process, the men let us watch them skin and gut the sheep, which a few of us took the opportunity to do so. the majority of us left once they began to clean out to stomach and intestines in the same sink we wash our dishes in though. The day continued on with a similar schedule as to the day before with the camp. It was also the day we encountered the squatty problem. We agreed that we felt we had out ventured out of our 'first world probs' when our biggest struggle became trying to find which of the three squatties had the least amount of poop all over it - which was a very real problem when you had 130 young children using them. And when we say there was poop all over, we mean ALL over. That day we also had our soccer tournament, which went much better than expected! We managed to at least get one goal, and to no one's surprise was scored by Sammi. The sheep made its second appearance during lunch in our soup, which was surprisingly comforting to at least know where the 'mystery meat' came from. In the evening we showed the kids how to properly brush their teeth and handed out the supplies to do so. We also participated in the kids' drama presentations, we did two skits where Spencer did a lovely performance of Jesus in both skits despite him being sick at the time. That night the group also came to the consensus that we would exaggerate certain aspects of our village stay, aiming to scare the other group for their trip. After slaughtering our lunch and being forced to go to the bathroom in the bushes due to the squatty situation, it wasn't that hard to come up with ideas. The next morning was thankfully a later start. During breakfast a few of us were offered just plain chunos (which taste even worse than when they are in soup or something) which wasn't exactly what we wanted to be eating first thing in the morning. We then played more games with the kids, made salvation bracelets, packed up our stuff and handed out gift bags to the kids while saying our good-byes. Despite getting lost on our way back to ATEK, we all made it back safe and sound ready to initiate our plan to scare the other team. After exaggerating the food, sleeping conditions, lice situation and the bathrooms (which needed no exaggeration) we had successfully traumatized the others into being extremely nervous for their trip. Our fooling came to an end finally at supper when we explained everything and reassured the team that the village trip was all around a very good and eye opening experience - and they were very relieved. At supper Dried Potato shared her "tater-mony" while we shared the remainder of our true village stories. - Lindsey The answer to the previous guess who is Seth, who showered Kaitlyn in cracker crumbs and spit. Todays guess who is someone from the village's quote of the day was "I peed on the poo!" guess who it was?