Yesterday I
met Tom and Tim and Tim’s Mum – a very glamorous lady and very interested in
all things Thai.
She is here until a week on Wednesday, and I think the ‘boys’ will be taking
her around and showing off ‘their’ homeland.
Boonying
picked ‘Fah up at 11:00am and brought her to me
(where Tuey and Jaay were, of course) and we all bowled along to Maes Y
Ruen to meet the sponsors. It was just as well they’d got there ahead of
us and kept a table, as it was so busy and people were queuing up all the time
we were there.
Fah seems to
have grown up all of a sudden. She’s always been tall for her age, but
she’s filling out now and is far more assured – quite the young lady.
Susan was so thrilled she had come along and was quite emotional. She
gave her 1,000 B note but had Boonying explain that although she could use it
for anything she wanted, she didn’t need to spend it if she’d prefer to save it
for something later. Then she gave her a 500 B note to take back to Mum,
to buy something for her sisters. Very sweet of her, I thought.
Fah said she
would like to buy some school uniform items and so Boonying went along with she
and Susan, to translate, and I went with Tom, Tim, Tuey and Jaay. Like
Susan, they had decided that as the boys were growing up now, they might also
like to choose something for themselves, and so each was given a 500 B note to
make their choices and they loved going along the shelves at Tesco to pick out
various toys (no thoughts of school uniforms for them) – and Tom and Tim bought
them books and pencils for school. They were allowed to keep the change
and were delighted with that, of course.
Unfortunately,
Fah had wanted a school blouse, but there wasn’t one in her size, however she
would be able to buy one in the shop near school no. 8 I was told, and
she’d do that later.
Then all the
children were invited to choose doughnuts to take home – and you can imagine
how that held up the queue, with all our lot!
Tom and Tim
had asked if it would be possible to take Susan up to see the Home, so Boonying
went over to meet David to get the key for the van, and brought it over so we
could all pile in, take Fah home, and then go over to BKP to return our little
charges and introduce Susan to Sharon, and give some of our boys the
chance to have a bit of rough and tumble with Tom and Tim. They just love
throwing them selves at them and being swung around etc – and Omsin just
attaches himself to Tim whenever he sees him. That child is just so sweet
natured. Tom had just had a wart removed, and so he had a bandage around
his leg – which proved very interesting for everyone, and quite a feat for Tom
to keep it away from prying eyes.
When we
arrived they were all watching ‘E.T.’ so they made us all feel very welcome as
they made room on the couches (because there was no way Susan and I could have
sat on the floor – two old ladies with bad knees and arthritis) and Sharon very
kindly went to make a coffee for Tom, Tim and Susan – as Tom had forgotten the
tea supplies! (They do look forward to a cuppa on their visits.)
Sharon showed Susan the girls’ rooms and Tim
enjoyed taking her to see the rest of the house. She will be able to
envisage everything now when they write to her in future. This was her
first trip.
I think they
were all happy with what they’d been able to achieve, and on the way back Tom
very kindly gave us 500 B for petrol, which was gratefully received.
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