Wednesday!

I would point out the Pavillion (highly recommended - we're paying for our hotel ourselves, not RK to clarify) was the Queen's mother's house. And it wasn't traffic lights here but a NEW one I was so pleased with. I do admit stopping to marvel at the very first green-man-flashing light I ever saw here after racing across roads clutching a small child previously. Traffic lights are grrreat.

I'm up super early to get Singapore work done and answer some emails before we head off to Stephen House, the Children's House near the Japanese Bridge. We're interviewing five girls aged 12-14 who live there to see if we can enroll them in our vocational training project. We've had two girls apprenticeing for a month now, and we've got two more we hope will join if their families agree, so we're already over-full for the pilot.

We picked up a tower of reference materials from the Chab Dai library - quite amusing to flip through one report and see my own name there (international adoption trafficking) and the people at Chab Dai were so nice. Then it was running from place to place the rest of the day. I met a lovely American-British woman living here who is going to possibly be our embroidery trainer, and well, it's all sorted! Curriculum needs to be printed, but the outline has been okayed mostly.

Heading back last night, a guy on the back of a motorbike reached into my tuk-tuk and grabbed my mobile out of my hands. Very annoying as it's going to cost a bit to file a police report, and I have to figure out whether it's worth the hassle to get the insurance back. At least I had recently downloaded photos from it.

So much to do! We're off to do shopping for the two houses this afternoon - kids need shelves for the clothes and books donated, we need a first-aid kit box, slateboards, whiteboards, this and that - the list does go on.

You can read about it here: The What To Give for Riverkids Registry

Pick up a backpack and some cups for one of our kids - quick and easy, and very appreciated.

Photographs coming - Therese got some very funny ones of the big yellow tuk-tuk Kerri took us back in, and some lovely ones of the Family House.