Day 7: Thursday 20th May 2010

Regular Routine

It was as usual, breakfast at 6am, followed by construction team preparing for construction while the teaching team will prepare to teach the kids.
The construction team continued our usual routine work: sanding, varnishing and sanding again with our…erm….disgusting RE-USED masks. I remembered that I was sanding at the left roof and there was a lizard spotted! The lizard was not really scared of me even when I was sanding very near to it but in the end, it was myself who was more scared when I tried to use sand paper to scare it away.
For today, I finally got myself a “chin chow” drink. (sorry I forgot the actual name of the drink again. Someone please enlighten me again *hint: YVONNE!!*) and our dear leader, clarisa got us ice cream too which melted as soon as it was being scooped up! That was how hot the weather at that time! Speaking of this, we had visitors today! There were 2 groups of people; one from NTU and one from UC Berkley who came for recee and immersion programme respectively. What is coincidental is that the guy from NTU, William, is Yucheng’s friend. Too bad Yucheng could not make it for this YEP trip. But anyway, they helped us with the sanding as well as varnishing the timber.
After construction, Jolyn and I went back to our host family’s house, wanting to bathe but there was no water so we ended up sitting on the chairs and watched Rowan and Sheena dance! They were so talented. One of the dances they did was what they performed during our farewell dinner and it was so super sexy! 
Anyway, the day did not end on a happy note because of all the unknown insect bites on Jolyn’s face and neck. Tita Jean was informed and then, our tita Rosei also knew and she was very worried for us. We were almost asked to change host family too and Jolyn and I were very determined to stay in the house despite the risk of getting bitten/ worsening the bites again. The main reason was that the relationship and the bond with the family had already been established and we were so reluctant to think of the idea too. (On a lighter note, another reason was that I couldn’t part with the children, especially the twins). Furthermore, if we were to move to another host family, we would need to adapt to their habits and also, we would cause more inconvenience to them as what we had done to our own host family. They (after knowing the news) had cleaned the sleeping area for us. If we did not go back home in the noon or after construction, we would not have seen that the mattress was shifted and all. The sight really made me feel so guilty but yet heartwarming because we know that they really cared for us a lot.
Yup, that’s about it for today! Oh and did I mention that sometimes, at night, Jolyn and I played abit with Rose-an and Li-on at the upper floor until we got so tired but most of the time, we didn't really want to stop playing. haha.

cheryl:))