Shout out to Anti Meg and DDD

First off to Anti Meg and DDD, caru chi. There's nothing more enjoyable than after a stressful hour of manic finger painting, retreating to our room opening emails downloaded and reading a delighting tale of the youth of DDD and taking note of the valuable life lessons that can be learned. This is a shout out to show our love, portray our enjoyment and say keep them coming. Always a highlight of a day.

Pancake Day
Our first GH cooking adventure was in the form of pancakes. Because it was pancake day and we didn't want to miss out!
This was eagerly anticipated by both of us and after a slightly stressful experience with the budget finally managed to grab hold of our requested $10. So off we popped to Lucky Supermarket with one of the older girls and Thea, the teacher of the younger kids. There was a surprising array of pancake mixes so we opted for one that we just had to add water too, less stress for everyone.
We got back and the pancake making got under way. It was fun and it was yummy!! (with surprisingly little drama occurring.)

Pancakes went down a treat!

Cooking Pancakes on the Stove!

Desk Officer Visit
Friday the 21st of February was another much anticipated date our desk officer visit! Heloise watched us go about our daily activities in the home such as taking some of the kids to the park. Then we went for PIZZA. We stayed overnight at the Group Home then met Heloise at the Mad Monkey from where we took a trip to the Russian Market. Involving a loooooong walk, getting lost a few times, asking for directions, finding ourselves on a street where another smaller local (cheaper) market is and generally having a lovely long conversation!

Amok
After the Russian Market we made our way to Imma's house where we met her husband Charles, (who is the most knowledgable man i've ever met!). It was lovely being in a proper HOUSE, where you can see things like toasters, and kettles. MADNESS
The food was absolutely amazing! A mango salad to start with, then fish amok followed by pastries and tea. We felt like a noble guest at the kings banquet.!

I have to say in this project we always feel extremely looked after by the adults who are around us. Imma and Charles are just simply amazing, if we have anything that needs finding or need an answer for something Imma is on the case. e.g. we mentioned we'd like a kettle and all of a sudden we're being brought to an electric shop to look for one. Didn't find one that suited the bill then when we're in Browns saying bye to Heloise and Imma pops in what does she have for us A KETTLE! (Thats one example in a fair few I can think of). Debbie, who works with the child who is deaf blind remembered the passing conversation we had about nits then has someone go out and buy us nit shampoo, her husband made us toast, tea, gave us juice. Then just before we left they set us up with a tub of chocolate brownies. yes.... CHOCOLATE BROWNIES. Needless to say they were gone in about an hour.

Sorry it's been a short and not very informative update. Hopefully next week we're getting strict with English Lessons, i.e. attendance, homework. We'll see how that goes.

Cheerio