Day three – Manado

woke up to find our tour leader had in fact come down with something so i had to take over the running of the tour for the day again. No major disasters so I’d call that a successful day!

We visited ID 127 or the bakery church. So much has changed here but the best part of the day was to catch up with Rusdy who was unable to be our Indonesian tour host  due to a job promotion. 

  
I love these guys!!

Got to catch up with Kezia and her sister today. She is so shy which is a bit of a shame as I’d love to be able to hang out with her a bit more. HeMr  sister did an awesome job of bringing Kezia out of her shell a bit. 

   

    
   
Home visits tomorrow which are always fun then more time  at ID 109

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day three – Manado

woke up to find our tour leader had in fact come down with something so i had to take over the running of the tour for the day again. No major disasters so I’d call that a successful day!

We visited ID 127 or the bakery church. So much has changed here but the best part of the day was to catch up with Rusdy who was unable to be our Indonesian tour host  due to a job promotion. 

  
I love these guys!!

Got to catch up with Kezia and her sister today. She is so shy which is a bit of a shame as I’d love to be able to hang out with her a bit more. HeMr  sister did an awesome job of bringing Kezia out of her shell a bit. 

   

    
   
Home visits tomorrow which are always fun then more time  at ID 109

Day two

our first real day in manado. The heat is really starting to pick upas the kids are finding out.

Our “tour leader” has come down with a mystery illness (stress+heat+stress??) so guess who has had to take over!! Oh well, knew it was going to happen!

We were welcomed to Berea in a traditional fashion which we have not experienced before.


Quite a special moment

Kids split up into three groups to hangout with the mums and bubs. I volunteered for the painting group which in hindsight wasn’t the best thing to do heat wise as we were painting the walls of one of their rooms which was really run down. The temperature inside was hitting 45 degrees some don’t know how the babies cope in there. The locals were saying it was hot!!

Got to visit Kezia today. Still as shy as ever so I cut the visit short to give her some space knowing I would see her at the project. Really smart and talented kid. I’m blessed to be involved in her life

Back to the project to meet some of the older kids and play games with them. Afternoon dragged  on a bit due to the heat and organisation (!) but invests so good to get back to the hotel to hit the pool and then run my first debriefing after dinner. Early night as it starts all over again tomorrow!!!

Day two was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day two was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day two was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day two was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day two was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day two was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day one-Manado

We flew in around lunchtime and headed straight to the church that burnt down on our last visit.  

   

Things are going really good for this community and is was good see them back on their feet after loosing everything. 

The rest of the intinerary saw us visiting a local shop to buy things for the project and our sponsor kids (totally forgot about the local currency and screwed up my first purchase – too many zeroes in the price threw me!) and then to the hotel.

Kids were amazing (think in going to using that word a lot) but our “tour leader” is getting sick so guess who will be taking over!!!

 

Day one-Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day one-Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day one-Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day one-Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day one-Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam

Day one-Manado was originally published on Cheese and Spam