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First Day of Work

Hi all,

Wer;e all having a brill time even though its roasting and really humid. Today was the first day wer went to the orphanage, we arrived by mini-mini bus and we really surprised by the size of the place. It was much bigger then anyone had inticipated. Unfortunately though all the older kids are gone for the summer! But there was still local kids hangin around the place.......

The work was soooooooooooooo hard, we sanded 10 rooms completely. By the end of the day we were all nice and crusty.............We haggled on the price of paint and got a really good deal.

Anywho, i gotta go......

ttyl..

Achille

Hey,

I'm in an Internet cafe now. Its absolutely roasting over here, sticky weather and close.
And mossies at night time.....

We all went into Hanoi today do the touristy things, Ho CHi Mihn mosoleum, water puppetry and the oldest university in Vietnam. Went on these rickshaws which was kinda mad and loads of crazy sights and sounds. Noel is on scout cam so were all sure not to miss a thing, two cameras on the go full time!!

Were all meeting the orphanage guy tomorrow and were gonna see what kind of a job we have ahead of us!!!!!!!

Its gonna be Great!!

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Vietnam is cool but different sooooooooooooooo different, we buzzed into hanoi today to do some site seeing.The hotel is good the rooms are deadly.The food is good very spicey and loads of rice were all havin a good time.

Going to the orphanage for the first time tomorrow were all looking forward to it.

Thats me done i am going to bed.

Mo

We're here!!!

Hi all,

Arived safely yesterday morning after a VERY long flight. Got settled into the hotel and our rooms have air conditioning, a proper toilet and showers so we are all happy. We met our translater Linh and the girl from helping hands Cao. We had dinner in the hotel yesterday and we got rice, pork and spring roles and for desert we had fruit. We had a walk around the town after dinner and we had everyone looking at us like we had 10 heads, we came back and went to bad because everyone was wrecked.

Today was a very long day we were woken by Joe banging our doors at 7.40 and weren't impressed!!

For breakfast we had bread and greasy rashers that were actually alright and we headed on our way to Hanoi to see lots of different things such as the Ho Chi Min museum, the Ethnic museum, and some water puppet show that everyone fell asleep for except Joe and Brenda and a few other heads.

We all got a ride on a rickshaw through the streets of Hanoi. Finally we went for dinner nd then back to the hotel.

Cheers for now,talk soon!!

(stay tuned for more...)

Shelagh/ Anna-Louise

Greetings from 'The Nam'

Hi to all back home.

Just a short post to say we've arrived safe & well... No baggage lost, but there is a story!!! & it's a long one.

It's a mad place over here. You'd have to see it to believe it & it's roasting!!!

We'll be in touch soon with more info, but wouldn't hold out too much hope for pics, the internat connection is not quite broadband, but we will keep trying!!!

Off to the orphanage in the morn & everyone's really excited about seeing it for the first time & sussing out the work...

Thanks for all the comments so far, the group are really glad to hear from all.

See yis soon

Noel & Brenda

1 day to go...

Well we're nearly there...

The fundraising done, bags are packed & we're all mad to go & get stuck in!!!

Stay tuned for the updates over the coming weeks...

C yis all soon...

Noel