Monday, July 20, 2009

New Volunteers, Toilets, Clinics, and Hill Tribe Kids

Hey all.
I've had an awesome couple of days. The new volunteers, two brothers from Canada, finally arrived. It's been really nice to have someone more my age and culture to talk to, even if they are city-boys who've never been camping ;). So we went up to a village in the hill tribes and stayed there for 2 days (we came back to base to pick up 2 more volunteers tomorrow). The first day, before breakfast we dug a big hole for a toilet. We ate showered, ate breakfast, and trucked to a church where we set up a clinic for the hill tribe ppl. We got to fill prescriptions that Dr. David gave, which prob doesn't sound that cool but made me feel very important and trusted :-).
When we got back to the village we continued with toilet building by smoothing out an area for the foundation, carrying bags of sand and carrying a bunch of concrete blocks. A lot of the hill tribe kids helped out which made it a lot of fun. Sometimes we raced with the sand bags! haha
After the work, we showered, ate dinner, and played bingo with the hill tribe kids. It was pretty fun for bingo.
The next morning we cleared another area for a toilet foundation and layed the foundation down. The hole was already dug, but all in all, it took us 3 hrs! We ate breakfast/lunch, talked for a bit, and then trucked back to base camp. Did some laundry, and here I am! :-)
I did take pics (and so did one of the kids...his are prob better than mine. lol), but I don't feel like uploading any right now! I promise to get a good pic of our toilet building (finished product hopefully) Gma! :-)
Hugs and Kisses to all

1 comment:

  1. i bet it wasn't as fun as DISCO bingo......love you. xoxox

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