During tuktuk rides to and from afternoon projects we always see kites flying, and Ashika told me that its kite season just now. The girls at the orphanage always get really excited when they see a kite in the sky and point them out to us, and so for the 'leaving-do' of a group of volunteers they decided to get the orphanage girls a kite! We asked Nalaka about it and he said that people don't really buy kites, they make them! Nalaka made us a brilliant kite with a branch, tissue paper and some glue, and he even made it have a British Flag pattern. It turns out that kites tend to be a boys thing, so that paired with having never had their own kites meant that the orphanage girls weren't too sure what ow to fly it, and us volunteers were pretty clueless too. The only kites I have ever flown have been plastic bags with string tied to the handles! The kites here are pretty impressive too, sometimes they are as big as the boy holding them and they get flown amazingly high in the sky! Luckily for us our tuktuk driver (my favourite tuktuk driver, he is so sweet!) took charge of the kite for us. The kids had a brilliant time with it. The older girls lost interest after a while but the younger ones loved it, it was brilliant seeing their wee happy faces as they ran along behind it! We didn't manage to get it flown very high though because it wasn't windy enough where we were and of course we had to stay within the orphanage grounds. I had 'Lets Go Fly a Kite' stuck in my head all day!
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