19th to 24th December 2006
All board to Medan!
Greetings by our Host & Rotaract Medan President at the airport
Getting used to Medan Traffic
The Medan Rotary Center
With a free dialysis center
Close up of the donated machines
The center also has a free clinic with a healthy strength of doctors
Contributor and Donors board
Getting to know the blind massage personel
Lisa's granddad showing the rotary stand and bells
The Tamil Temple Visit
Merdeka walk
Rotary Fellowship Dinner
A night to remember!
A night at Merdeka Walk
Regular night meetings before bed in prep for the following day's events
Day2 On our way to the local schools!
Still could not get enough of medan traffic, you need 6 eyes to drive here!
Our objectives includes student interaction and teaching english.
Here we are at the school
And do they love balloons...
The primary classrooms
here, we make the balloons as prizes
more balloons!
it's a hit with the kids, not to mention interactive, the one with the correct answer gets a balloon prize.
where the children have to guess & answers posed to them in english
Thats for the primary kids!
a singing performance!
Hangman games with secondary classes
For the secondary students
we play largely knowledge based english games like trival (wheel of fortune) & hangman
Ending with a christmas song before school dismissal.
Visit to the local wet market
And look what we found!
Dinner that night was at the rotary president residence
where we had karaoke and some partying with the elders
a memorable night!
ending with a gift of appreciation to the president herself
including the elders themselves!
besides entertaining them in the common area
our job there is to give the whole place a clean
their basic grooming are cared for
including the washing of their feets...
while the rest of us went about sweeping, wiping and mopping the premises
but the rewards at the end are priceless...
encountering years of dust, lizard waste, dried urine, all packaged with a trademark smell...
it's tedious cleaning up a very run down place
it's a free old folks home, run purely on donations
Day3, old folks home visit in the rural areas
we had a rewarding meal at the end of the long day...