Hi Everyone!
Sorry about the late blog today everyone, I was
procrastinating as much as I used to with assignments, my Mum would know how
excellent I am in the art of procrastination oops :/ Anyways...
This morning we all
woke up to Cliff’s bad choice of music on his phone (again!) and after that we
slowly and sluggishly made our way out of bed to have a breakfast of hot Milo
and some good and bad biscuits. It was followed by a multitude of handshakes
and “Good Mornings”. J
Today was filled with shopping for art and well needed
supplies, games, cards, activities and painting. Mr. Mannivannan (Money) offered
to drive us to wherever we needed to go to purchase whatever we needed. He
picked us up and I had the privilege to meet Mr. Mannivannan’s lovely daughters,
one of which has been adopted by him and his wife Judith. His daughter spoke English very well. She
showed us her school and interpreted something her brother said to Lucy, “You
and your teacher are very beautiful.” (Ed. Obviously he was talking about me!!!! J )
We obviously giggled that off and headed into the store. Today I experienced Tesco
for the first time!
It was kind of like
Woolies mixed with Target. (Ed. Aussie for supermarket for the UK contingency) It was great! Everything you could want in
one store! Lucy, Henry, Casey, myself and Mr. Mannivannan’s kids spent about Rm
350 ($115.00 ish). After that we spent another hour and a half shopping but we
came back to very excited people who were eager to do some activities with us.
Haydn and I made a good start to the Christmas mural they asked us to do and
Lucy, Saranda, Besa and Emily started putting Christmas artwork that everyone
did up on the wall and it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself J.
Although we have had a pretty good day, we are all getting a
little bit overwhelmed by the impact that the residents are having on us and we
see some things that are not what we were expecting to see on this trip. We are
working well together as a team to try to get along and do the best work we can
here so we can get the most out of this experience. (Ed. It appears to be
working folks!)
We had a bit of a late evening meal because we were required
to assist with serving diner to the residents at the home. When we decided to go out for dinner I
decided to try something different and something which I have been looking at
since I have been here. Daging Tom Yam soup (beef and lentil). The man taking
our order said, “It little bit spicy” So with this response to my order I
wondered how bad it could be so I replied to the man, “oh that’s ok.” Once I
got my food I spent the next 2 hours trying to make my mouth stop burning and
some people *cough Nick* thought it was hilarious. IT WAS REALLY HOT!!!!
After tea and before going to bed...Miss Francis decided that she needed to do something about Nicks HUGE blister on his toe...So without hesitating she plunged the sterilised pin into nicks skin. Unfortunately, she hadn't anticipated the pressure build up and before she could defend herself she received a blast of Nicks toe plasma in the face...of course the whole thing was recorded on video...we'll post this later YUK!!!!
To sum up, we have all had a good but challenging day and
looking forward to the next. We are all
starting to miss and definitely appreciate the comforts of home and what our
parents and families do for us.
(Ed. Hopefully you will see big
changes folks!)
Quote of the Day: “My Jeremy was like pushing out
Chuck Norris” – Haydn and his 3 day old Jeremy (Ed. YUK!!!! There is a lot of
poo chats on these trips!)
Sun Chart: 4.5 (sun all day and the daily
afternoon thunder storm around 17.30)
Much Love,
Melissa xoxo
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