March 13 - 15

03/13
Mellow day today We went to Sudam's house for a memorial aviversary party for her mom. After lunch we walked across the street to pick up are jewlery. They truned out really nice, and of course we spent more money. Ben pick us up and we went back to the house. For dinner tonight we went to the temple for them to say thank you for the 5 bikes. One of the nun's spoke very good english. She walked me around the temple and told me about some of is history and explained some of the different statues to me. She was in Indonisa for 5 years and said we sould go there for are next trip. Very poor country more poor then Vietnam. She came back to Hue to take care of her mom. Back home after dinner, I worked on the computer typing in info for Craig. It is a very stormy night, really windy and raining a lot.

03/14
Not to good of sleep last night for us. It was so noisie from the storm. Dr. Hang stop by the house this morning to pick the money that we owed her for the well and the bikes. She also gave us the drawing and paper work for the well. Susan and Muriel decided to build a house for the blind family. We gave the ok last night and they started it a 6:30 this morning. We will go by and take pictures so that everyone back home can see the house. It cost 25 million dong. That is a house with a raised foundation, 2 bedrooms, toilet, eating area, alter and a good roof. Not bad. It equals about 1,800.00 in US dollars.

03/15
Up early today. We went to the temple were Susan, Thuy and Tina's dad build the statue. It is called Quan Yin. It stand up high on the mountain. It was like a fund raiser and celebration for building a new building. There were lots of people there. We didn't stay at the top for all of it. The smoke and the smell from all of the insence was to much. We tried to stay a long as posibble. Are eye's were just burning and tearing. We went back home. Susan and Mom went to a memorial party. I stayed home to type more info to Craig. We left the house again a 4:00 pm to go to a school that is for children that lost their parents. The women that started th school is from Swizertland. It was her life long dream to start up this school. She is 79 yrs. old. The school was very clean and all the children were so polite and well behaved. The dinner was vegetarian. We had soup and something that was kind of like a taco. It wasn't to bad. After dinner I was asked me to go over and talk to the childern in english. It was really cute. They would stand up and ask me a question I would answer back and they would start to laugh. Then it was my turn to talk to them in Vietnamese. It was pretty funny. They thought that was great that I knew some vietnamese. After that they all stood up and sang 3 songs to me, happy New Yyear, one in English song the the last in Vietnamese. It was fun .