15th September 2014
Stayed over night at a hotel in My Tho. Did not sleep well. Our pillows were just too hard ... so we rolled our towels up, but it still was not the same. We always travel with our own pillows, but Matt decided we do not need them just for that one night. W R O N G ! ! !
Had breakfast with Father Duong, Mark and our driver.
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| How many chop sticks do you need Mr. Mark ??? |
It took us just about an hour to reach Hoa Dinh. Some of the kids were already there. Parents and all the kids were in the room. we started
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| Short welcome speech .... |
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We set up and started to call the first student to be interviewed. Again Mark did a wonderful job. Some of the younger girls were really shy and afraid to talk.
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| Looking for the name of the first student to be interviewed |
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| Gifts the kids received |
Each student received a stuffed toy, a doll made by the kids of Coolum Beach Baptist church and either a hard wood cross or a hardwood fish with the letters JESUS carved out. We gave the kids a choice ... the fish was not as popular as the cross !!!
Next please ...
Again there were two students who did not perform. One was telling us his average was down because of English. Ok, Uli got the excel sheet out ... bingo - he was very low in all his subjects. Mark told him in no uncertain words ... Get your act together mate ...
Some of the kids were waiting outside playing with their new toys or just staying with their mums.
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| Mum was sitting in on the interview |
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| Happy mums |
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| Group photo, just the kids ... |
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| ... and with their parents. |
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| On the Honda and bye bye ... |
Well, most Hoa Dinh kids do very well at school, on average better than the other kids in our educational support program. We praised them and asked them to keep up the good work !!!
Bye bye till next year. For us it was time to say good bye to the delta and also to Father Duong who is so deeply involved in our program and helps us wherever he can.
On the way home ....
How many ducks do you think are carried by this women on her Honda ???
Make a guess and send us a comment, thanks.
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