The first day of work completed - week two
Well yet another day of hard graft at Sarnelli House today and I’m pleased to say that the volunteers have been superb. They have worked reallly hard and we have nearly finished the work at Vienkuk girls home, although we found the detail work to take longer than expected. Tomorrow we go to Sarnelli House to start the decoratoing there. It is a big job and I know the vols are all really looking forward to getting stuck in to their own project.
After we finished at Vienkhuk we headed back to see the kids for a couple of hours and I think it is fair to say that the children wore everyone out more than the work! I’ll have to crack the whip harder tomorrow I think. To finish off the day Derek and I decided to take the group out for a fantastic Thai meal at a market restaurant. Amazing food and all in all I think all in all everyone has had a great day.
Here’s to tomorrow!
Claire
cookie32 said,
November 6, 2007 @ 10:17 am
Hi again everyone
Well I logged in for my daily installment and wasn’t disappointed! Glad to see you’re doing some work Paul in the picture…tee hee.!!
Good to hear the work at Vienkhuk is completed, bet it looks fab!
Hope there’s some painting left to do at Sarnelli - quite handy with a paintbrush!
Anyway keep up the excellent work - you’re all doing an amazing job and it shows.
Enjoy!
Love Debs Cook xx
Admin said,
November 6, 2007 @ 11:16 am
Just had a thought, it might be worth people out in Thailand putting up on the forums things that might be worth bringing out, i.e. the glow in the dark stars that someone mentioned earlier in the blog.
4loi said,
November 6, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
Well done to the two groups. It seems you’re doing a really great job there. I love seeing the happy faces of the children. Please send us some more about how you get on with them…any games?
I can’t wait to be there at the third week, 2 days to set off!!
Loi Lopez
(Moved by admin from ‘Writing blog entries’ hence my pic up there :))
siobhandrane said,
November 6, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
Hi everyone and well done for all the hard work so far!! It’s great to see how you’re all doing.
I head out there this Friday for weeks 3 and 4 and I can’t wait. It looks like the volunteers on these weeks will have a lot to live up to but I’ve no doubt they’ll manage it.
Enjoy the rest of your time there and have fun sightseeing on Friday.
Take care
Siobhan x
suejj said,
November 7, 2007 @ 10:48 am
Hi all
I am due out in week 6 - hope you leave us some work to do!!
I understand the children looooove marbles. Anything else? I have been promised a load of stationery - pens/pencils/paper etc that I shall arrange to have sent to the orphanage.
I am so excited!!!!
Sue Jannaway
Admin said,
November 7, 2007 @ 11:53 am
Get those blog entries comming guys, yesterday this site got over 600 page views, you’re growing and growing in popularity!
Iain
sharon45 said,
November 7, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
I can’t believe its our last day tomorrow. We have had such a great time and the work has been so satisfying you just can’t imagine what can be done in a day, and the look on boys faces once we had finished their room yesterday said it all. I have been part of a fantastic team and Claire has proved her weight in gold, getting us all organised and having everything we need just to hand. We went to see some of the work going on at the boys home and they were in the process of laying concrete for a basketball court which will look fab when its finished. i know this may be difficult for you to bring out but the little ones are pushing dolls around in an old pram which has seen better days. i have been to see if I could get a buggy but they only seem to sell them for babies not dolls. The telescopic ones may be easier to bring. Let you know how it goes tomorrow will probably be very emotional!
suejj said,
November 7, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
Hi Sharon
The receptionist’s daughter has a brand new My Little Pony buggy I can have and I will also try to get another one from Argos. What about a couple of footballs for the boys?