Trip Update

Over the past couple of days we took part in several different things from helping out at the school to pearl fishing!

On Saturday we helped out with a scholarship sale at the school.  The sale included an assortment of donated items from clothes, books, baked goods, and handmade crafts made by the children to face painting and a sand art activity.  There was a huge turnout and all of the things that were not sold went to a local charity.  Our group split up by helping out at the bake sale, reorganizing clothes, face painting and sand crafts.  

Erin helping with the sand art activity

Face painting

Scholarship sale

On Sunday we joined Jenny and Alex’s fellowship.  It was great to meet so many different people and learn about how the group was formed.  After fellowship our group helped take care of children during a meeting for the adults.  We were exhausted by the end of the day, but it was a lot of fun! 

Our team before fellowship

On Monday we went pearl fishing with a couple of people that were friends with our group’s members.  Although the rain stopped us from going on the boat we did get to experience the market with all the different sellers.  One of the sellers actually let us collect a few shells ourselves in their personal shop!  After that we enjoyed an awesome lunch with our friends and headed back to the hotel to get ready for dinner at Alex and Jenny’s house.  

Lindsey with pearls

Group shot with pearls

We cannot believe that our time in East Asia is almost over.  We depart back to our hometown on Thursday.  The next couple of days are going to be a little unpredictable, but we will try to update the blog as soon as possible!  Thank you for all of the support and keeping our group in your thoughts!