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Published: August 24th 2012
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Bowling Alley
Is that a strike! Well today was our last day volunteering. We took 20 aged 7 to 12 out bowling. Now picture the scene the bowling alley is in a very posh department store (like Selfridges) on the 5th floor. So we get the kids there by two large people carriers and get them all lined up outside the store. We had planned it that the entrance we would use would be the one where the escalators were right inside the door which would take us to the 5th floor.
So in the store we trot and start to take the kids on the escalators not thinking that they would never have seen one of these let alone been on one, took us all by surprise when they were scared of getting on it. So we had to show them how to get on which was the easy bit as we were travelling up the escalator we realised we had to get them off so I got to the top quickly and when they were approaching I shouted jump, jump, jump - if you could only hear and not see what was going on you would have thought we had them jumping out of
Arcade
Have I won!! airplanes, ha ha
Anyway divided the kids into 4 groups of 5 on each lane and for the first 10 frames it went well the kids loved it - and then something happened that started WW2 and they all started getting bowls and wanted to throw them at the same time. We quickly decided that starting another game was not the best tactic. So off to KFC which was around the corner from the bowling (in the same building) and got them chicken and chips which they all seemed to love - I am sure chicken has more bones than was left on their plates. Mike went off to get them some tokens for the arcade games after getting them to line up for their tokens for a game each on which ever machine they wanted. They loved it so time to go home we thought and hey presto we were in escalator gate part 2.
This time we had security guards with us - do you think they saw us and decided as the shop was now full they needed to get us off the premises quick - your guess is as good as mine.
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Little ones on the roof
Duc, Ai, Ali just before we left them for the last time! to the orphanage we go and drop them off. We decided to go to see the little ones for 1/2 hour before we went back to the guest house. We took them onto the roof and they loved it so after 1/2 hour we take them back and say goodbye. It was a bit sad as this would be the last time we saw them and Ai (the only little girl) said goodbye and shook Mike's hand which started Mike welling up. I suppose as I have done this thing before I was a little more hardend to it and said goodbye and went - as there will be more volunteers who will love the kids just as much as we do next week.
We are getting the sleeper bus tonight at 8pm so this will be a new experience for Mike so will keep you up to date with how it goes tomorrow after we have arrived in Nha Trang.
Sad to be leaving Ho Chi Minh but onwards and upwards as they say - never look back, just look forward!!
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aaaaaaaw hot aweet they look