- Getting used to Medan Traffic
- All board to Medan!
- while the rest of us went about sweeping, wiping and mopping the premises
- lunch was at Lisa's favorite Nasi Ayam Store
- A night at Merdeka Walk
- With a free dialysis center
- including the washing of their feets...
- And do they love balloons...
- where the children have to guess & answers posed to them in english
- Hangman games with secondary classes
- we play largely knowledge based english games like trival (wheel of fortune) & hangman
- Getting to know the blind massage personel
- Visit to the local wet market
- Greetings by our Host & Rotaract Medan President at the airport
- The Medan Rotary Center
- Rotary Fellowship Dinner
- The center also has a free clinic with a healthy strength of doctors
- Our objectives includes student interaction and teaching english.
- And look what we found!
- There Dr wilson gave us a tour and practises the hospital has in treating and handling mental patients.
- Thats for the primary kids!
- Day2 On our way to the local schools!
- Contributor and Donors board
- Close up of the donated machines
- The primary classrooms
- their basic grooming are cared for
- Day4, Visit to the Government Mental Hospital
- Merdeka walk
- Here we are at the school
- where we had karaoke and some partying with the elders
- but the rewards at the end are priceless...
- Ending with a christmas song before school dismissal.
- including the elders themselves!
- we had a rewarding meal at the end of the long day...
- Regular night meetings before bed in prep for the following day's events
- Lisa's granddad showing the rotary stand and bells
- A night to remember!
- Still could not get enough of medan traffic, you need 6 eyes to drive here!
- here, we make the balloons as prizes
- For the secondary students
- a memorable night!
- encountering years of dust, lizard waste, dried urine, all packaged with a trademark smell...
- Dinner that night was at the rotary president residence
- it's a hit with the kids, not to mention interactive, the one with the correct answer gets a balloon prize.
- more balloons!
- a singing performance!
- The patients are all locked up in long houses, while the ones deemed normal are allowed to roam the area
- besides entertaining them in the common area
- it's a free old folks home, run purely on donations
- some stories from the patients can be rather sad too