Tuesday, 1st May 2012

Waterfall

After we ate our breakfast we went to do our Community Service Project, which was going and spending some time with children from a school for the disabled. We divided into 4 groups. There was Sports, Mural Painting, Games and Arts and Crafts. I was in the Arts and Crafts group. We were making things out of Origami paper, making 3-D animals, drawing, making things out of play-doh and iClay, and also bracelets. To me this was very fun, because the children were so eager to learn and focused on their task for 2 hours, or more. Those children were really sweet.

After we have spent some time with the children and gave the school some balls, badminton rackets and birdies, pencils, and other things, we left for a waterfall. We ate our lunch there, which this time was chicken and rice. Then some of us went swimming in the pool at the bottom of the waterfall. I was one of the people who made their way into the freezing cold water. To me that water was even colder than the water at our lodge. A couple of other people came in too, but no more girls only the boys. The ones that were in the water went under the waterfall which was trickling down at the side of the pool. On our way back we stopped at another waterfall nearby. Some of us walked to it through the forest and the others walked through the street, where there were shops that you could buy things from. I wanted to buy something in the shops, but I couldn't find anything interesting.

Back at the Lodge we got some free time. After our free time we had to meet up again to come up with interview questions, for our Social Studies project. Once all the questions were made and written down, we went to play some games. My personal favorite was the deer and wolf game. One person was the deer and the rest were the wolves. The deer had blindfolds on so that he couldn't see anything. The wolves had to try and sneak up on the deer. Whenever the deer heard someone approaching it had to point in their direction and that person would then be out. The first person to touch the deer was going to be the next deer.

Once our game session was done we went to eat dinner. After dinner we all went back to our lodge for a quick shower. This time I tried to use the other foist and I realized that there was warm water at this lodge after all. The exact same thing happened to Julia. When we wanted to go back to the dining room to meet up for the actual interview, it was raining. Luckily we had three umbrellas. Adriana and Alisha took the first one which seemed to work well. Jae Yun and I wanted to take the second one, but it was broken. So we tried the other one, but that one didn't have the stick to hold it on. So I just held it in a weird way above my head.