Pre Weekend Adventures!

Not only did we make our driver make 3 detours on the way back from placement so we could stop at the Dam, White Temple (again) and a 7/11 but we also made him camera man, shouting the one phrase that seems to transcend language barriers “PHOTO! PHOTO!” at him at each location. This is group B at the Dam.

 

Note: These photos on this blog really aren't the best. But this isn't facebook and I'm here to see the world, not for the world to see me...

We also spend a couple of hours in what I guess the closest thing a tiny village in the mountains has to a pub- a shop that sells alcohol and has bamboo mats to sit on. As Lisa noted, playing Chinese whispers with 10 different accents is hilarious.

 

On Saturday morning a group of us went to the Orphanage for a few hours just to play with the kids. It’s so cute- when the Songtao pulls up outside the building the kids (knowing the songtao is full of young adult foreigners carrying baskets with toys and games) start screaming. As soon as I got out of the songtao one girl ran over and grabbed my hand and pulled me into the building. The same thing happened to Nicole and Tom. Aww.

 

The kids were so sweet. I don’t know what I was expecting, I knew modern day orphanages aren’t like ‘Annie’ or workhouse style ‘Oliver!’ full of skinny, depressed children. It was also a great excuse to act like a kid- teaching the Hokey Pokey, making bracelets and “What’s the time Mr Wolf?” (in my lessons yesterday teaching ‘Time’ to Grade 3 we played “What’s the time Mr Snake” as I thought it was more culturally appropriate, paha.

This photo shows the gorgeous views and dust cloud experience of song tao travel (well, the romantic view. Others see it as dirt track riding down potholes without seatbelts or air conditioning…)