Snotty Noses

I never want to wipe another snotty nose in my life! Especially a green, slimy one! It's winter in South Africa, so all the kids are passing around various flues. All six of the kids at the orphanage bring along green snotty noses every morning. So, my entire day was spent wiping nose after nose after nose after nose. Even though the kid in the picture looks so cute, innocent, and clean, in real life he's actually a snotty nosed little bugger! Don't get me wrong, I love him to death, but the snotty noses are turning me off a bit for the moment.


Snotty noses aren't the only thing that I am tired of....fights are another! Breaking up arguments seems like my life's work, second to wiping noses. I do not understand why one toy can be so darn important. These kids will kill each other over one freakin lego, when there's about 500 other identical legos in the toy box. I just don't get it!
OH! and there's one kid that has decided it's so much fun to bite me. Every morning as soon as he gets a break from fighting the other kids, he waits for a moment when am not looking and bites me. Crazy, crazy kid. I have so many bruises on my legs where he has bitten me. He's worse than a dog, when he bites he just won't let go.

The little boy in the photo below has grown on me. At first, I absolutely HATED him. He would not listen to anything I said and he would head butt me as often as possible. He would try to kill the other kids, and he's autistic so he's pretty capable! But, one day I had some one on one time with him (which is rare), and he won me over! Not to say that he's gotten any better...but he's a pretty cool kid. He still head butts me for fun and tries to kill his friends and the dog, but we sort of have an agreement now.

Kids are cute, but I definitely don't think I can handle a career dealing with them.