Wow day 12 already and I bet it will fly past after a hectic Sunday we have our second day at the “Nuns’ School” we had our usual white knuckle ride in the open back truck all 10 of us sitting at the back, when we arrived yesterday the kids (more than Dreamhouse) came to [...]
Read More...Today we started at a different children’s home- the nuns’ school – and it seems even hotter than last week which is rather frustrating when we have to keep stopping gardening to step into the shade to save getting sunburned (even with SPF30+) so don’t feel we are doing enough work. We helped cultivate some [...]
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Today we ventured up the mountains to the nun’s orphanage. After a weekend of fun…. elephant trekking, celebrating Amy’s birthday, and a trip to the nature club… it was difficult to get back into the swing of things, particularly when the task at hand was planting peppers and aubergines (eggplants). The thermometer read 36 degrees. [...]
Read More...We have just had a really amazing day at the Nature Club, where we tried out different activities including ziplining, zorbing and riding quad bikes and buggies, as well as swimming in a beautiful lake and sunbathing (a few of us pasty Brits are quite sunburnt now!) In a moment of madness I had signed [...]
Read More...Amy’s birthday weekend is off to an amazing start! This morning our group got to go elephant trekking around the jungle, totally spectacular! After that a group of us went canoeing to the Sunken Temple and then we all surpised Amy with a birthday cake. Tonight we’re off to Garden Home to watch the FA [...]
Read More...Hello To save repeating too much of the detail from the other posts this week, I will just say that we’ve all had an amazing week and can’t believe we are halfway through the trip, we have helped make some small improvements at the Dream House but we are all sad to be leaving Vik [...]
Read More...We’ve just finished our first week of volunteering at Dream House and i’m sure I speak for the team when I say it’s been fantastic.. the children are so great to be around, happy smiling, helping us build and dig, and so clever! We’ve been digging drainage ditches, building their new toilet and today painting [...]
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Here we all are at Dream House! Vic helped us get all the kids together for the photo in front of their beautiful rainbow. It was sad saying goodbye to them today, but hopefully we will be able to go back for a visit next week when we are working on another project. We all [...]
Read More...Even on the other side of the world, the Citeline team sticks together!
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