Day 2 Monday 14th June

Once again, the group awoke to have an early morning breakfast at the hotel restaurant before heading over to the orphanage. Like the previous day, the group set straight to work at painting the walls. The mural painting, overseen by Mrs Caroline Tang, was also started on the second level, with the idea of an underwater theme. This time, less people scraped off paint and more started painting the outside of the second floor. We started painting the various rooms we had not accomplished the day before, and we also started on the second coat of paint on the walls. After our brief lunch of revolting MRE’s, all the while being hounded by dozens of flies, we continued our work to about 4’o clock, at which time all the boys came down to have a football match with the children. We then trouped onto the bus to return to the hotel to rest and relax. At 6.30pm, we all met at the lobby to head for our dinner. After the delicious and enjoyable buffet dinner, the group chose to venture into the night market, something that we had wanted to do the previous night but was cancelled due to the rain. In the night market, there were all sorts of interesting things to see and do, such as the doctor fish. These special breed of fish would bite of the dead skin cells on your toes, supposedly leaving your feet extremely clean and healthy. The downside was, it was very ticklish, as most of the group who tried it found out. After the group finished with the doctor fish ‘’massage’’, we split up and went our separate ways into the night market, and after having bargained and bought what we wanted, we one by one made our way back to the hotel by tuk- tuks. After another exhausting day, it was all to easy to sink into our beds to sleep.