Swimming bonanza

The day started with 5 more quacky additions to the group who strangely all had the name Allan (yesterday Simon bought a tatty duck puppet for 150 pesos from a street vendor who then came back today as that was probably his first sale for the last couple years. This morning his sales boosted up as 5 more ducks were bought, all who were baptised into the Streetlight Trust group and given the tremendous name Allan.) However it seemed the ducks only had a limited life expectancy!
We were picked up at 10:00 by Sol and we had another long journey which involved much singing, games and laughter. We arrived at the swimming complex after a couple of near death experiences in the van as Lito was driving. We were dragged into the pool by a crowd of excited children where we spent the next few hours playing games of tag (which was very difficult as you had the extra weight of about 5 children hanging onto you for dear life!), swimming races, slide racing and numerous legendary games of NINJA!!!
Afterwards we had an exquisite lunch which involved various Philippino foods which was made by the wonderful house mothers who woke up at 2am just to prepare it. Once our energy was restored I joined in a game of basketball, but unfortunately for them I wasn’t such a helpful addition to the group as they started losing once I actually managed to catch the ball. A little while later we all got together and had a time of worship, singing memorable children’s songs.
We had dinner at a Mexican restaurant with all the Kanlungan staff which was very nice as we got to see the whole team together having a laugh.
The day was a great success and we had a memorable time!
God bless
Ashleigh & Tamackawackatannihennikuyurotamataraturabecockytickimongahorabukawenawackatanitirimatakuracenatoaconinickitura (formerly known as Simone…well actually its just Simon)
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