Frusterated....

Darren and I just completed our first attempt at a lesson with the kids. Let's just say we feel a little beaten down. We had this great idea...lets divide the 50 kids into groups and send half of them out with the digital cameras, and the other half of the kids into the computer lab to type up a story and after 45 minutes we would switch the groups.

Let me give you the scenario....after church it seems like every Team member from MITS had some place they had to be, Jerram is exhausted and resting, and the kids are being released from Bible class at 3. So that left Darren and I with 50 kids. Our first thought-we can teach them the outside games we have been wanting to work on (kickball and teaching the girls basketball), the problem there was the all the balls we brought are locked up. Second thought-we can teach the kids how to play the Wii we brought, it too was locked up, we got it out and started to plug it all up-not enough transformers. Third thought-we will teach them a lesson using the digital cameras and typing their stories, problem ALL of the batteries in the cameras (mind you they are all brand new, I took the batteries out of the plastic myself) started dying. SERIOUSLY!!!! At this point Darren and I were at our wits end.

Ok so back to our actual lesson. We sent the first group out with the cameras and told them to be back in 30 minutes, each person was to take 5 pictures. An hour later I am still waiting on the groups to return. Mean while we had had the kids partner off in the lab because we had what we thought 13 computers they could work on, slowly one-by-one we were down to only 8 computers that worked. WE both took a deep breath at this point. As the groups started returning with the cameras and the typers were wrapping up they exchanged spots and the cycle started over again.

Our lesson did not go as smoothly as we had hoped for-heck the entire afternoon has not gone as smoothly as we had planned-but we made it through, and the kids had a blast and were none the wiser to our frustration.