Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Water Park outing




On Friday, 30th May, the Sunshine kids had their annual outing, and like last year, we took them to a water park on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Anticipation was high because they remembered what great fun they had had last year. We loaded them onto two large open trucks, a very common way to transport groups of people here, and made the short journey to the countryside. About 80 children had a fabulous time and many of them asked me to go down on the slides with them or play "crocodile". I even taught a couple of teachers how to float on their backs! Another bonus was that the water was quite clean and there weren't any other groups so we had the place to ourselves! Praise God that we had a safe and fun time.

June is my last month here before heading back to Sydney for 6 1/2 mths furlough, so there are many things to tie up and/or handover. The individual meetings with staff were very beneficial and I started doing a discipleship course with the preschool teacher who really wants to learn what it means to be a Christian. Another staff member came along to my house last week, so she will continue the lessons - praise God for that too!

My children, Jasmine and Samuel, are now on summer vacation, so it's going to be tricky having them at home (or taking them to places) when I still have a full workload!

3 comments:

Katherine said...

hey didn' they all get sick last year? i guess they onley remembered the fun part!

Bonnie Lepelaar said...

yeah, last year many of the kids had headaches or vomiting after a whole day in the sun but they said it was worth it and they wanted to go again! I didn't hear of any similar cases this year, but then I haven't asked!

Unknown said...

Peppa Pig

The person events with personnel were very valuable and I began doing a discipleship course with the toddler instructor who really wants to understand what this implies to be a Religious.