| Monday February 1, 2010 [ 1.Feb.2010] |
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| Monday Feb 1, 2010 – Day 1 The ladies (Heather, Dawn, Tammy, Linda, Clara, Ester, Lydia, Gwen), plus Trevor (camera man) headed to Agape Hill view Education Centre – Global Neighbor’s built this assembly hall this past November. When we arrived the children were all in the assembly hall anticipating our arrival. They began to sing for us with all their hearts and souls. Their voices rang out loud and clear, as to let us know they were excited and happy to see us. We proceeded with the crafts making Valentine cards, playing games of bubble blowing, hot potato, balloon toss, and taught the kids a few songs with actions. In a corner of the court yard the puppets that W J Berezowsky and East Central School Students sewed for the children were being handed out. Back home the students put such care and affection into these puppets, it was touching to see how precious each child held these new toys. Their smiles were from ear to ear. We had anticipated 40 children, which ended up being over 100. We gave out 55 puppets and 36 knit dolls, many toy horses and dinosaurs were also handed out. The atmosphere was full of energy, squeals of joy and lots of affection. Dave, the fellow in charge of Agape school, insisted on preparing our work team lunch. We were served a rice dish, delicious Indian curry chicken and a tomato salad. Dessert was a crispy fish and rice cake treat. Once the teaching group arrived back at the hotel we gathered in a huge hall to unload and sort all of the supplies over 800 lbs. (The items included medical supplies, school supplies, clothing, hygiene items and toys. It took all us girls 3 hours to sort everything. Rueben spent his 6 hours at the farm roto-tilling, preparing the land for the tree planting (orange, mango & pineapple trees) which will be completed this week. He enjoyed working on the farm and driving the machinery. Justin, Dave F, Jerry, Gord and three other local workers spent 7 hours on a new facility for drying clothing in the raining season. This building is located at Hsa Thoo Lai dorm. They put up the trusses and almost completed putting the roof panels on the building. Mike & Chuck headed out at 7 a.m. with Dave H to the new Muslim school – this building was built in December by GNCI and the Moose Jaw Siast Students. They designed and began building moveable partitions. Today was the grand opening of this new school, so the fellows were very fortunate to be there and witness the energy and excitement at this celebration. After a quick supper of Pad Thai at the night market, our day ended with a visit to Tsa Thoo Lai dorm. The kids were busy studying for exams - algebra looks exactly the same on this side of the world . As usual, there was song and dance to enjoy. We spent some enjoyable time with the kids before lights out at 9. |
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