Day tripping
Well, we went to the zoo on Thursday and had a really nice time. It would have been slightly better if one of the guys hadn't been sick all over the bus about 10 minutes before we arrived...I could see what he'd had for breakfast and to be honest I would have been sick too - it looked horrible!
Anyway, Bangkok zoo was really nice as zoos go...it wasn't the most wheelchair friendly place in the sense that there were quite a lot of things that the guys couldn't see because the walls were too high, but I would have thought that most zoos are like that...there was also quite a strange reaction to us from some of the other visitors - I think they thought that we were one of the exhibits - they just stared and stared...Not everyone was like that though...the guard let us in for free (which was cool - as the money can go towards some other stuff now) and some guy came up and gave us some money and asked about how he might volunteer for the charity.
Here are a couple of pictures (although I think you'd probably guess that without me telling you)...the guy in the second picture is called Samuud and is probably the smiliest person I have ever met...I get the feeling that he loves coming to the day care centre. Apparently he's only just started coming since I've been here (we are able to do more when we have more volunteers) so it must all be great for him.
Today, Henrik (another volunteer from Denmark) and I went to buy some paints for the guys...since I've been here, they've been doing a lot of the same things and I'd say they're probably getting bored of some of them by now...so anyway, we've been trying to come up with some new stuff and we've got some cool ideas...the first one is painting...over the course of the next few weeks we're hopefully going to get the guys to build up to doing a proper piece of artwork - then we can have an exhibition and maybe an auction with the proceeds going to the artists...we'll see how it goes but I think it might be quite cool to show them some masterpieces for inspiration - maybe some of them would like to do their own version of a Da Vinci or a Van Gogh or something...
As for the comments on the previous post...I wondered who'd be the first to mention that! It's really cool here to be living and working with so many women...makes a nice change after being in computers for 7 years...on our course at uni there were about 150 people...1 girl...still, she had everything a guy could want - sideburns, moustache...
Anyway, Bangkok zoo was really nice as zoos go...it wasn't the most wheelchair friendly place in the sense that there were quite a lot of things that the guys couldn't see because the walls were too high, but I would have thought that most zoos are like that...there was also quite a strange reaction to us from some of the other visitors - I think they thought that we were one of the exhibits - they just stared and stared...Not everyone was like that though...the guard let us in for free (which was cool - as the money can go towards some other stuff now) and some guy came up and gave us some money and asked about how he might volunteer for the charity.
Here are a couple of pictures (although I think you'd probably guess that without me telling you)...the guy in the second picture is called Samuud and is probably the smiliest person I have ever met...I get the feeling that he loves coming to the day care centre. Apparently he's only just started coming since I've been here (we are able to do more when we have more volunteers) so it must all be great for him.
Today, Henrik (another volunteer from Denmark) and I went to buy some paints for the guys...since I've been here, they've been doing a lot of the same things and I'd say they're probably getting bored of some of them by now...so anyway, we've been trying to come up with some new stuff and we've got some cool ideas...the first one is painting...over the course of the next few weeks we're hopefully going to get the guys to build up to doing a proper piece of artwork - then we can have an exhibition and maybe an auction with the proceeds going to the artists...we'll see how it goes but I think it might be quite cool to show them some masterpieces for inspiration - maybe some of them would like to do their own version of a Da Vinci or a Van Gogh or something...
As for the comments on the previous post...I wondered who'd be the first to mention that! It's really cool here to be living and working with so many women...makes a nice change after being in computers for 7 years...on our course at uni there were about 150 people...1 girl...still, she had everything a guy could want - sideburns, moustache...
posted by Paul McG @ 7:22 AM
3 Comments:
At 2:15 PM,
Anonymous said…
apart from the bus sounds a great day at the zoo, brings back memories of Edinburgh Zoo and John the fierce Lion,but then you are too young to remember that. Great to see the ripples of your good work spreading out and touching others who see God bless you all.
At 9:46 AM,
Anonymous said…
Nice one bruva! The painting idea sounds good - recognition for their creativity will be a great confidence boost, and they are effectively raising money for their own activities - great idea.
Sounds positive about the girls... Makes me want to sing.... "Love is in the air, everywhere I look around..." ...Well that might be a little premature but I await the next development.
A perfect development would be "This is a picture of my new Swedish girlfriend Helga (the blonde one in the skimpy clothes and the viking helmet), and the guy next to her is her Dad who owns the brewery in Stokholm."
I'd settle for the girlfriend bit though!
At 12:33 PM,
Anonymous said…
Seems you need more clues to my identity then!
1. I haven't registered because:-
a) I'm not computer literate, or
b) I'm too lazy?
2. When playing pool, the aim of the game is:-
a) To pot all of your balls and then the black before your opponent, or
b) To get as many balls off the table in one shot as possible?
3. The stupidest thing to throw into your girlfriend's drink is:-
a) A coin, or
b) Her mobile phone?
Nice to see you're having a good time and making a difference.
John the fierce Lion made me laugh. We had Roger the Lodger, an unspeakable story involving the frailties of caravan plumbing systems.
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