Rice Babies

Last week some of my friends were assigned to take care of rice babies (simply bags of rice) for two weeks, as if they were real babies. Feeding at three and twelve in the middle of the night ensued. As a looker on, it was quite amusing to watch. Everyone had their babies wrapped up in some sort of blanket, they all had storries of how they woke themselves up (one kid put his cell phone in his sock and set it to vibrate.) and other things. On Wednessday though, some kid stole some other kid's baby, and so the office called on the PA for the thief to turn the bag of rice back in. Some kids thought that there had been a kidnapping, and the next day parents called the office. The really funny thing is that there is acctually reason behind calling the school: Yemen is in the top ten corupt countries, and kidnapping is a "legal" method for getting the government's attention.