March 16 & 17

03/16
Today Mi and cousin took us to the market & book store. Back home for lunch and nap before we head out again. We meet up with Dr. Hang and went to meet a blind student that is almost done with school. One of his classmates helps him to get to school. All of the young men that he rooms with keep a good eye on him and help him out a lot. When he is done with school he is going to go to work at the school for the blind. We gave him a envelope and off to the next stop. We went to see this little girl that has a bad heart and deformed shoulder blade. She is a very cute tiny girl. Dr. Hang wrote down all her information took pictures and told her grandma to bring the little girl in to her office tomorrow so she could do some test on her. We wanted to buy her a bike so she could get back and forth to school, but need to wait to see how the test turn out. She lost both parents so Grandma takes care of her. We went to check out the school for the blind and meet a few of the children there. From there we went to the hospital to see how some of the patients were doing that we helped. Vong one of Susan's old friends gave us money to give to a girl that has been waiting for a long time for surgery. So we went to see her and deliver the money to her. She has been posted on the Internet for months and no one has come forward to help her. We meet her on are last visit and helped her to so now maybe she has enough to get it done. We then went to the cancer building and gave some money to a women that has breast cancer and just got done having surgery to have them removed. A lot of times the family's have no money for food while they are waiting for there loved ones. It is a lot different then at home that is for sure. It is getting late so we head home have dinner and stuff envelopes for tomorrows trip.

03/17
Happy St Patricks Day!!!
Today up a 7 to be ready to leave at 8. We are going the Blind Buddha Munk's temple. It is a very poor village. We went there on our last trip. There are 10 of us going today. We brought rice, noodle soup, oil, and sugar. We didn't walk it this time. When we got there everyone was at the temple waiting for us. Most of the women got dressed up and put on there traditional's for us. They had made a list with all the names of the people that were getting a envelope for us. Dad called out the names and Muriel handed out the envelopes and Susan took pictures. They were all so excited when we called out there name. After we were done with the list we walked to a few of the house. They were not able to make it to the temple. This time the houses were on the other side of the village. It didn't take near as long doing it that way. Got back home to eat and make our plans for tomorrow.