| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| Santa Santa Santa Santa Baby... |
 Christmas day was more chilled than Christmas Eve, which meant lots of time with the kids. The morning was a coloring contest for all the kids, and the afternoon was something that was imagined as Undokai (Sports Festival) but evolved into games chaos in the blazing sun. We had a ton of toys and school supplies from everyone's collection efforts back home, and every child got various gifts. A company had donated a backpack for all the older kids, and some of them didn't take it off for days. My little Mushroom, Kemala, got a puppy that she carried most of the week. And that tiny guy below carried that yellow plastic bag around like it was a baby. Proof that toddlers will inevitably love whatever the toy came in more than the toy itself!
 
 We had not one, not two, but FOUR Santas, partly because it took forever to hand out each individual gift. Above is KT and one of the older girls, and below are Santa Gary and Nicolelf with some of the younger kids. Many of the Burmese kids wear thanaka paste on their faces, which has many purposes. It works as sunscreen and bug repellant, and is used decoratively for beauty reasons as the girls get older. It is said to condition the skin, and absorb sweat, and probably cure cancer while regenerating fossil fuels, too.
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