Friday's report

The above photo has P and J with their family and other NZers and Koreans .




Taken from the Habitat for Humanity web site


Friday, November 20, 2009

Build day 5: Dedicated and celebrated

On Wednesday and Thursday, volunteers stayed well beyond the scheduled 5 p.m. quitting time to stay on track for a grand finish Friday.

On Friday, volunteers stayed late once again—this time, though, they stayed late to celebrate.

After dedicating 21 freshly finished homes in the New Life Community, volunteers and families shared a meal outside while a crescent moon was rising. Traditional Cambodian dances accompanied the dinner. Non-traditional music preceded it when Cambodian hip-hop artist DJ Khlaing performed a song inspired by his day spent building on the Carter Project work site.

Other entertainment included a clown show for the village children, and volunteers from New Zealand performed a traditional Maori dance called the Haka.

Saturday, volunteers will return to the community again, capping their celebration with a visit from Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.


P’s text this morning read:
21 houses…we did it!! Wonderfully satisfying now it’s over. Lovely house dedication. You develop quite a bond with the family and team- sometimes without words. J has been great.


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I found something quite interesting last night...

If you go to this site and then clock on the side bar to "photo video gallery" - then go to the bottom of that page to the video called Build Day 3 in Cambodia - you will see, at the very start , two people getting off a bus - look closely - they are none other than P and J!!!!!!!!!!