Playground and adventure room

This weekend I just enjoyed relaxing. I went with a friend and her daughter to a pool which is on top of a very tall shopping centre so we had an early morning swim there which was really nice. It's very refreshing swimming outside here. And Sunday was church and in the evening we went round to a friends' house to watch highlights of the Jubilee (patriotic family!) but it was nice, still feel a part of the celebrations in the UK! I also moved my stuff out of my friends' house and into Sirin House (the volunteer accommodation) and in the process of unlocking the front gate got absolutely soaked. Rain here is nothing like rain at home. You just have to be in it for a minute and you might as well have been for a swim!

It was lovely to go back into work on Monday, I feel so at home there. In the afternoon we took some of the children outside into the little playground that CCD have outside the day centre.

These three boys were loving the swing!

Today, three visitors that are here for another two weeks came to Fuang Fah with me. One of them is very musical so he was asked to play and sing songs for the children this morning. It was good fun, and some of the English songs  we sang, we also sing them in Thai with the children. This morning we did tac-pac which is a sensory experience for the children using different things to touch the childrens' skin with like sponges and fur. This was set up by a previous volunteer a few years ago, so it's great that they still use it. Then this afternoon we took the children to a reasonably new adventure room which has been donated to the government orphanage by some people. It was great! Such a development for the orphanage, now it just needs the government staff to use it well. So the kids had great fun going in and out the ball bit, playing on the swing and raunning around. As did all the staff and volunteers, throwing balls at each other all over the room! So much fun! I didn't get any good pictures of the adventure room (too much runnning around) but here are a couple to give you an idea.

Mid throw!