Celeste arrived from Florida on Friday with a suitcase full of jandals for the kids. She had actually mentioned to me a month or so ago that she was going to try and bring jandals with her when she comes, but i had forgotten and was getting ready to get shoe sizes from all the kids and get them some new jandals. Thankfully I hadnt gotten around to it!
The kids generally have one pair of shoes. Usually black, plastic, hot, sweaty, extremely poor quality shoes that they wear every single day at every moment unless sleeping. Their feet can get pretty gross as you can imagine. Especially when like right now there is no water (most of the town hasnt had water for the last 2 weeks – including the orphanage) – thats water in the pipes, not drinking water – so they dont get to wash themselves very often or very well.
Celeste bought over 100 pairs of jandals. We laid them out upstairs, took 3 kids up at a time and fitted them with a new pair and wrote their names on them. The rest of the jandals are in bags here at my place where they are available for when their jandals break or get lost. Celeste took photos of the event so I hope to put some up in the next few days.
Other news: I made hot cross buns on Sunday. Yum. You cant get them here, nor easter eggs. The bread here is quite different, sweeter. Marmite on toast isnt nearly as enjoyable on sweet bread as it is on the bread we have in NZ.
I saw Anchor butter from NZ, about NZD$10 for the same sized block you normally buy butter in! I went for the local butter.
Made Mango Float and am eating some right now. They fed us Mango Float until it was coming out of our ears in the Philippines. I’ve made it a few times in NZ but the mangoes are never as good there – over here they are delicious. It still tastes amazing!
Finally got an oven (the old one didnt work, landlords couldnt get replacement parts so put in a new one, a gas one thankfully as the power is out quite often).
Its been very hot the last few days.
[...] Here is a photo of the kids with their new jandals. [...]