Serve Thailand 2005
Ngee Ann Poly
10-23 Oct 2005
One Heart Touching Many Hearts
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Day 3 - 12th Oct 05
don't even know if i got any sleep at all... so cold.. no pillow.. blanket half gone.. head and back aching.. urgh!! stupid roosters cuckooin..
had the same thing for breakfast.. yawnz... rest for awhile before we started painting.. our team was separated into 2. i was with mrs hong, we are going to paint ban doon school, the one we went to yesterday whereas the rest with ben will go to baan hin klon school further down.
we started painting the hall 1st. it was in a terrible state. sooo messy... we began pushing and shifting the things to the centre and carrying the things outside so we can paint the walls. it was a tiring task trying to even open the paint can and mixing them with a stick. the paint was pretty diluted, so had to mix hard and thorough and long.. i had to churn them until they were thick and had a light greenish colour.
we started painting the school. it was tiring and arduous but we perservered on. halfway through, mrs hong fed us cookies.. so sweet.. we had to pint the interior and exterior and give the walls 2 coats. we were painting the bottom exterior when mrs hong came and say the principal wants it glossy green. i felt so angry, couldn't he say so earlier. but mr tan say we are here to serve, we are not just painting the schools but also their future, so just do whatever they want to make them happy. in no time at all, i was painting all over the school. we were trying to find bamboo sticks to stick into the rollers to reach the high placs. pikul got a few more brushes and rollers for us to paint cause not enough.
i was actually kinda slacking off after a while.. haha..juz nice, lunch time!! we trodded back for lunch, to serve our hungry stomach. we had fried egg and some chilli minced meat with rice. packet food. tasted quite nice.. we rest for a while before headin back to paint.
this time we started giving the walls the 2nd layer of coat while some was still unpainted. marcus and qiong ping were reaching high places, climbing this and that to reach the ceiling wall. so hardworkin.. mrs hong said that the 2nd grp have already finished painting cos got alot of people help them.. from e village one.. kids and men.. poor us.. the guys all run away.. useless bunch.. oh yea, got 2 boys. jom n bichoi play with us every night and help us paint the schools also. they kinda cute..
it was getting dark soon and we had to leave and continue the next day. for dinner, another sumptuous feast. steamed fish, egg with pig trotters, bittergourd.. the fish was delicious. i seem to have beter food here then food at home, maybe cos i hardly hv home cooked food. mr tan was commenting that we have the best food here compared to other overseas community trip who have to cook themself.
after dinner, clarice and marcus had to wash all the bowls. poor thing.. tonight was especially alot because mr tan wanted a communal dinner where we sit in a circle and share the dishes.
we had a briefing afterwards and then went to play games. a few other village children came to join us. we started playing the animal game and had to get jom n bichoi to teach them as we desperately tried to unsuccessfully show them e game. they also taught us some of their games and it was very fun and tiring. it was getting late and they had to go home. so we pitched the nets and went to sleep
~Audrey~
12:55 AM
