Mietzke's POST Holden Adventure

The girls had a sleep over with their class at the school last night. Tom, one of the directors at Holden came and told the class the story of the monkey bears as given to him by his grandfather, and how Monkey bear falls in the village came by its name. Tom is a magical story teller and held the children captive with the tale. After the monkey bear story, Rachel taught the kids a chair game which led to fits of giggles and silliness. We had a fun time with the games and then played hide and seek in the dark. Each of the children took turns and each spent time trying to scare each other. The scariest thing happened right as we were finishing the last round of hide and seek. The high school kids snuck into the basement and began to make noise first just rattling and shaking then rumbling. At first the elementary children thought a martin had gotten into the basement and were nervous about it when the high school kids began to make a bunch of noise that caused all of the elementary children to set to screaming and hiding behind the teachers and I, but after a moment they began to voice the suspicions that the tormentors were the high school kids, and then Teacher Steve led them into the basement for discovery. Then we all had hot coco and cookies and settled into sleeping bags and listened to a story. It was a good night. I left after our evening prayers and headed up the hill to sleep peaceably in my own bed. Dave had been home watching movies and getting some time to himself, which is a hard thing to get in this village sometimes. The whole elementary class, all six of them came up to our chalet in the morning after the sleepover and spent the day playing. It is amazing to me how well all of them get along!