Today is a day of mixed emotions as we bid farewell to the people that became like team mates and our adopted children. We played the amazing Race for our learning activity today. There were 7 stations that the kids went to, each station reviewed what we learned over the last 2 weeks. They had to preform an acrobatic feat to get to the next station , ie wheel barrow, three legged race,hopping on one leg, etc., which made us all smile at their antics. After our 1 1/2hour lesson we had a farewell celebration that included a power point presentation, a certificate and grab bags for the kids and speeches from one of the founders of Mirror Art Foundation. It was beautiful, and emotional for all of us as volunteers.
We were happy to announce our intention to raise $6000.00 Cad for Jay to go to Pharmaceutical school in Chaing Mai. So any one who wanted to help before and didn't know what to do --- this would be a great opportunity to make a huge difference directly in someones life. Terry, Esther and Norrie-Shan have committed to fund raising $500.00Cad each to his cause, so if you want to help Jay out, please let one of us know and we can connect you to the right people!!! Jay is a member of the Karen Hill Tribe, who showed amazing intelligence and drive to become better. His tribe is one of the tribes who loses the highest number of children to human trafficking, as it is so poor. The obstacles he has had to face seem insurmountable to us, yet he is still battling through- he really is inspirational to talk too.
Thank-you for allowing us on our soapbox- back to our day!
We had lunch with the children, and got ready to leave. By the way, does any one know why things fit into the suitcase coming but we need twice as much luggage to leave??? After saying our bittersweet goodbyes- sad to leave students, staff and volunteers, but OK to say goodbye to what they call a bathroom and a bed, we headed to town to book our tickets for tomorrow's bus ride to Chaing Mia. After the bus we take a taxi directly to the airport to go to Bangkok. When in Bangkok waiting for our next flight we have to taxi out into town to get hotel tickets, leave suitcases and taxi back to get to our flight to Phuket!!! Who planned that?
But it should all be worth it, since we get to be by the ocean for 3 days- not so bad for a volunteering holiday!!
Next we took a 30 hour certified foot massage course, from a certified teacher who did not speak more than 2 words of English, in less than 2 hours. Lucky for the people we are going to practice on Norrie bought the DVD, as I am pretty sure we will have to review! It was a very hands on course so we will study and practice on each other and let you know how it turns out!!It was the usual Thai miscommunication involving vehicles , people doing favors for people, a guy knows a guy... your getting this I'm sure. Same Same.
Since we were in town, we had to shop the night Bazaar- there is not a bad time to shop! We bought a few things, picked up the girls glasses- all of us got new glasses here for - CHEAP, blogged and are now going home to repack - AGAIN.
You won't hear from us tomorrow as we will be traveling all day , so have a good Wednesday and we will talk with you on Thursday!!
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