Hey everyone,
I hope you all have a had a great week as I have had a good one too.
Recently I was involved in making the Development and Outreach Student Team (DOST, it means friend in Hindi) for the school. I'm really excited about being a part of the team because we get to run all sorts of community service and really make a difference in this great part of the world.
Our first project was a clothes sale at St Paul's church to raise funds and also supply clothes for an area called Sippancoat which was recently affected by a really bad landslide as well as raise funds for the DOST budget so we can serve other places of need. So it started last friday where we collected all the donated clothes and took them up to St Paul's church, it is about 15 mins drive from the school. When we got there we had to sort the clothes into shorts, tshirts, sweaters, etc. That was it for friday but it took about 3 hours.
So i arose early Saturday morning and headed for school to catch a bus to St Paul's. We got there at 9 and immediately started setting up tables and unpacking more clothes that were left over by the seniors that graduated last year. By 10 o'clock we had got all the clothes on all the table's, t-shirt's at one table, shoes at another and so on. I was lucky enough to have the shorts table, where we sold shorts for 10 rupee, about 20 cents. I say I was lucky because hardly anyone would buy shorts due to it being Monsoon and the end of summer, so I had a pretty easy day. Most of the time I was just watching for people trying to steal the clothes. It was fun calling out the guards if you saw someone walk away from the table with shorts in there hands without paying.
On friday night we had a surprise visitor to the dorms, it was a cat.
It first appeared when Isaac, Cory and I went out on the deck to look at the stars and stuff which we do most nights, we soon found the cat curled up under a concrete seat, it woke up when it heard us and went straight into begging mode. The cat immediately started rubbing itself all over us and being really cuddly. We thought it must be hungry so we got it some food and some water and it just devoured it. We went to our dorm parent, Mr Tim and told him about the cat, he just said to leave it because it was a stray, but of course we just couldnt leave it. Somehow it ended up in Cory's room in his bed where she (Yes we found out now the cat was a girl) fell straight asleep.
We put the cat out for the night, hoping that it would just go home, but suprise-suprise she returned the next morning, just as hungry and cuddly. Mr Tim was pretty annoyed so he 'Disposed' of it during the day, but long behold she returned again sunday morning. It's tuesday now and she's just in the lounge. There are rumours going around that she is infact pregnant and is just waiting to drop her babies here then leave. If that is the case, ill never love a cat again.
I hope you all have a had a great week as I have had a good one too.
Recently I was involved in making the Development and Outreach Student Team (DOST, it means friend in Hindi) for the school. I'm really excited about being a part of the team because we get to run all sorts of community service and really make a difference in this great part of the world.
Our first project was a clothes sale at St Paul's church to raise funds and also supply clothes for an area called Sippancoat which was recently affected by a really bad landslide as well as raise funds for the DOST budget so we can serve other places of need. So it started last friday where we collected all the donated clothes and took them up to St Paul's church, it is about 15 mins drive from the school. When we got there we had to sort the clothes into shorts, tshirts, sweaters, etc. That was it for friday but it took about 3 hours.
So i arose early Saturday morning and headed for school to catch a bus to St Paul's. We got there at 9 and immediately started setting up tables and unpacking more clothes that were left over by the seniors that graduated last year. By 10 o'clock we had got all the clothes on all the table's, t-shirt's at one table, shoes at another and so on. I was lucky enough to have the shorts table, where we sold shorts for 10 rupee, about 20 cents. I say I was lucky because hardly anyone would buy shorts due to it being Monsoon and the end of summer, so I had a pretty easy day. Most of the time I was just watching for people trying to steal the clothes. It was fun calling out the guards if you saw someone walk away from the table with shorts in there hands without paying.
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| The view of the line in-between waves of desperate customers. |
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| Making itself at home on Cory's bed |
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| Cuddly Cory |
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| Mathai getting some action |
Well thats all for today, I know this is posted late but i've been busy and tired and never had the energy to make a good blog. But i'm setting up a new method where ill have a draft saved of the blog then add stuff to it and upload the whole thing every week. Hopefully that makes it easier, so i don't have to do everything in one sitting.
Stay well,
Lachy Wild
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