Thursday, August 30, 2007

the Rangers and Somali Bantu

The tutoring program at Catholic Charities was able to get free tickets as rewards for our best students from summer tutoring. I chose two of my students and they got to invite their families to come to the game. Daniel and I got to take 11 kiddos with us to a Rangers game a couple of weeks ago! It was of course their first time to a game. There were lots of, "Ms. Kim, what's that?" questions. We took our picture with Nolan Ryan as we entered the stadium, then walked up to the top level - quite an exercise! Several of the kids are under the age of 8. Three of the four older ones were girls, and mostly came with us for the company, not for the sport! But Omar is 16 and he and Daniel hung out in the stands and Daniel explained to him the rules of the game! The man selling cotton candy came up into the stands and this sweet woman sitting behind us bought 5 things of cotton candy for our bunch. I was really blessed by her generosity. Some people would be annoyed by such a large group of kids with few adults asking questions throughout the game, but not this lady. Her heart was generous and she really blessed the kids and me as well!

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