We woke up and had breakfast with all of the adults and before the Sunday service, we had some time to kill and went to play with the younger children. We played 'duck, duck, goose', and with a skipping rope. All the girls were in dresses and looked so cute.
After a bit when we were both pretty tired after being so happy and energetic we had to go to a church service as the people who ran the organisation were Christians. We had to go along as well and it was a very weird experience. It was very 'Halelughia' with arms in the air whilst singing and such which is very different from Clem and myself have experienced when we had gone to church in England.
After church we had lunch and then went to the local shop with the smaller kids. it was so sweet as they all had little umbrella to protect themselves from the sun and they all tried to hold our hands. At the shop they spent some of their pocket money on snacks and stuff.
Unfortunately, we had to leave afterwards. We are thinking of going back though when we have time off. We had to stop off at Khon Kean again for the night and before we went to a village in the town run by the Mercy foundation. This one though housed children with HIV. They had medicine to combat it and some were looking so well and energetic. Unfortunately, a couple of them were a bit more affected by the medicine and were not able to be as involved or as energetic as some of the other children. We stayed there for a bit and had dinner there as well. The children there are all so happy despite the fact that they all have HIV.
Later that evening, we went to a market which was set up for some Thai silk thing that was happening in a few days. We bought some nice clothes and jewellery and I also had a go at one of the games.
We went back to Si Saket Monday morning and went back to teaching in the afternoon. All in all, a brilliant weekend.
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