Outings with the children and girls

These are a few photos of a couple of outings we have been able to take the children on and also of another day at Rachawadee girls. These are a couple of weeks old, sorry but I wasn't able to upload them earlier. I hope you enjoy them. Hopefully will get some photos in the next couple of weeks or so.
It is really lovely taking the kids on outings because they very rarely get to go out unless there are volunteers usually who can take them out, so it really is a great excitement for them!!! On these trips we've taken them for Thai food and then ice cream and also some of them we took round the shops and these two above we brought back to the house for a little while.
Ana had made a slide show presentation for the children at Rainbow house and it was really cute because the two girls wee sitting watching it! They just looked so cute.

Here is Ploy is watching the slideshow

Don't worry she was actually laughing. She laughs a lot and it is so lovely to hear.

Here she was trying to rip up some paper.

I think this is such a lovely photo. Kara has a wee prayer book and she was just flicking through it. I seem to have managed to catch her as if she is reading it!

Me taking Ploy back to the house for a little while. We live just off this road, actually that reminds me, I really need to take a photo of our house from the outside so that you guys can see where I am actually staying.

Fascinated by transferring one bottle to another (and making a big mess in the process!!)

A massive plate of food for a very wee girl. It was macarroni with chicken, mmm.. Aloy mat mat!! Though I'm not so sure Ploy thought so.

Another day at Rachawadee girls. I tend to go here if the staff at Fung Fah have a meeting or for some reason they aren't going to be there. It is quite good because it means that I get to see what goes on at another place. Also I am getting to know some of the girls which is nice. Actually we took a group of 4 girls from CP ward to church last week. It was really nice, and all the people at church were really welcoming to them and they were really touched that these girls had wanted to come to curch, it was lovely to see.

A lovely pose by Kara. :)

I seem to have a lot of photos of this wee girl. But she was just so responsive when we put her on the wedge and gave her a few toys, we saw lots of smiles from her so that was really nice.

The sensory room.

Me playing the keyboard with one of the girls, she really enjoyed it



She really enjoyed seeing herself in the mirror.

The pianist!!

Doing some physiotherapy/OT. It's really great because I am getting the opportunity to practice some physiotherapy.

Thought you might like to see some Tuk - tuks, which really are quite a common mode of transport her in Thailand.

This was a huge treat for the girls that we took out. We took them for ice cream. As you can see from the look on her face, she was really pleased with this yummy ice cream

Ali and Bunta, great big grin.

Yummy yummy, egg fried rice and vegetables.

Photos

Sorry for the lack of photos and posts recently. Sadly my camera has decided to stop working so I won't be able to put up anymore photos for the next few weeks until I can get another one. I have got some more photos to put up from last week but they didn't want to upload for me which is a real pain. Work is getting better and better as I get to know the kids more and the staff too. Just to let you know that although to everyone at home the Bangkok situation sounds really bad we are not really affected by it. Apart from having a curfew for 4 days. I'm not really sure what is going to happen after that but hopefully there wont be any more troubles because it has affected people that I know out here. I will try and put the photos up again another day to see if it will work. Thge photos are of a couple of outings that we have taken the kids on which have all been very successful, if a little tyring!
Going on an outing on Monday which will be good.

Work - trip with some kids from Rainbow house and work at Rachawadee girls

These are the children from Rainbow house that we took out on Saturday. We took them for lunch at KFC which was a treat for them. Then we went and they played on the arcades then they had ice cream and a drink. It was really nice to take the children out as they don't get out very often. BUT...It was very tiring because they were all very excited about coming out. It was one on one with the kids which was definately needed to keep them under control! I really enjoyed it though and think it went well with the kids enjoying themselves.
Sorry about the photos being on their side by the way!

Eating sticky rice!!! They don't consider having eaten a meal unless they have had some rice. The ladies who make the food at the stalls here seemed to really enjoy seeing us with the kids even if we did disrupt the place. One of them gave the children her water when they were wanting us to buy them another drink, which was really nice of her.

Sharing the water the lady gave us.

KFC

Yum yum!!!!

He seemed to be more interested in licking all the sauce off the plate rather than eating his chicken nuggets and chips!

Thai pose

This is when I spent 2 days at Rachawadee girls which is the orphanage for the girls who are roughly aged 7+. There are women there too. We think some of them are as old as 35, maybe older! This is in the day care centre. However, we spent most of our time in the ward for children with Cerebral Palsy. All day Thursday we were in the ward, playing with the girls, giving them lunch and making sure that they weren't all lying on top of each other in their very small space. Then on Friday morning we took six girls to the day care centre which was really nice, it was one on one because most of these girls need extra care. Then in the afternoon we went back to the ward to play with all the other girls, though we didn't have time to play with them all. This picture above isn't actually one of these girls though.

Next week we are taking a gew of these girls to the church we go to. These girls are christian and would like to see what Christian fellowship is like. So they are really looking forward to that.

In the sensory room, she didn't like looking at the camera.

Kara with Jirapun in the sensory room

What a fantastic smile!

This girl is very bright, knows exactly what is going on around her.

Playing with a spcae blanket. She really liked the crinkling noise it made and also blwing it in fron of the fans.