Dress ups, Sports day and a banquet.

On Friday it was yet another Christmas party. This time it was a party held for all the CCD staff and volunteers and was extended across the whole day.

In the morning all the volunteers had to leave Sirin house at the bright and early time of 7.30 so that we could be a Rainbow house by 8.00. The reason for this early start was so that we could all play dress ups. As volunteers we all had the opportunity to dress up in traditional Thai dress with the colour of our team for the sports day. This was a lot of fun. Being in the yellow team, I was given a bright yellow costume. Some of the staff members came to help us dress and also did our hair and makeup. Their plan was to put 2 nice neat braids in all the girls hair but when they saw my mat of curls they didn't really know what to do so instead my hair was in a bun with lots of flowers.

me all dressed up!

Once everyone was dress and all our makeup and hair was just right we gathered with the rest of our team and then paraded around some of the streets around Rainbow House. This was a lot of fun. We even had some 'marching' drums played by some of the boys who used to be Rainbow house residents. Sports day was a selection of different confusing games and sports. One game involved four team members being blindfolded and following the directions of another team member to find a tennis ball, another was an adapted version of flag race, we also jumped around in sacks and some people did an obstacle course/food competition. All in all it was a great morning.

We had the afternoon off before making our way back to Rainbow House for our dinner party. The whole garden was completely changed from the morning and there were lots of tables set up looking onto a stage where all the performances for the evening were held. The dinner was for all the staff of CCD as well as sponsors and others who are involved in the community. Dinner was a banquet of 9 different courses. It was all amazing food and needless to say I was rather full by the time we had finished.

At about 10ish all the sponsors and others left and just the CCD staff and volunteers were left. This was when all the presents came out. Everyone had to bring a 200B secret santa present so to start with we all collected one of the presents. Following that there was a lucky draw and everyone got a card (and the staff all got their christmas bonus). It was a great evening.