Today was upside down - instead of working in the morning & visiting other projects in the afternoon we took 49 children from Fountain of Hope to Adventure City which is a waterpark with extras. After a night of rain it was a cold day, but it didn't stop the children from racing into the water and having fun.
Reluctantly we left the children and went off to our projects for the afternoon - Rewired went to Garden Hill where the building team had painted the IT room ready to be used as the IT room - this time we were leaving laptops that we had already prepared, so all we needed to do was power them up.
They were then ready for the staff to have their introduction to them by Martyn. Which meant that I was free to get to know the locals!
Some of the children were playing on an abandoned truck lying at an angle - a novel climbing frame, including the cab which they were lifting & dropping. Scary.
Afterwards we went on to Fountain of Hope to carry on sorting out the Internet Cafe (the internet connections had been reconfigured). 3 of the boys came up to me and gave me a baby bird that had somehow (!) made it's way into a trouser pocket of one of them at Adventure City. I'm not sure if they were disappointed when they asked me if I was going to eat it and I said no! It was injured and was too young to survive anyway, so when the coast was clear I dropped it through a window into the vegetable garden to let nature complete its job.
On the way back to Chamba Valley we passed through the sets of traffic lights offering retail therapy - this time we turned down the opportunity to become owners of toy machine guns and Ben 10 (well, something trying to look like Ben 10) figures.
This was our last full day of work before our long journey south to Livingstone for our mini-holiday.
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