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...
followed by a visit to the medan wildlife museum before calling day 3 in close
Day4, Visit to the Government Mental Hospital
There Dr wilson gave us a tour and practises the hospital has in treating and handling mental patients.
The patients are all locked up in long houses, while the ones deemed normal are allowed to roam the area
some stories from the patients can be rather sad too
lunch was at Lisa's favorite Nasi Ayam Store
before heading to the local supermarket to purchase our BBQ items for Day5
& see how big their fruits are!
Dinner that night was at our very hospitable rotary president's home again
Day5, Bus trip...
up to Brastagi Highlands!
The kids are a happy bunch
The pastor of the orphanage
There we get to interact with the orphans/single parent (all very low income)