Incredible
Day with Our Pen Pals! (from Lindsey, the 3rd trip leader)
Today,
we visited our pen pal school and had an incredible experience! We started the
day with greetings and exchanging gifts. Evergreen 8th graders brought
Evergreen Frisbees and t-shirts, as well as things like Sounders caps, picture
books of Seattle, and stickers and pens. The Bat Trang students gave our
students lovely gifts like pottery trinkets (the village specialty!), cute
notebooks, and shuttlecocks.
Next,
we had a mini talent show! We broke out ukuleles, and Bat Trang students sang
for us. This was followed by a huge range of games: bash-the-pot (like a piñata
but with crockery), wobbly-bamboo-balance-beam, tug-of-war, bike riding in the
school courtyard, and of course Frisbee!
We ate
a giant lunch together, then visited a pottery school to learn the traditional
village specialty. Our skills were somewhat lacking. :-) We finished the day
with time for small groups of Evergreen and Bat Trang students to explore the
village together, then parted ways with our fantastic new friends!
Tomorrow,
we have one last day in Hanoi, then depart on the night train to the rural
northwest of Vietnam in Sapa!
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| Ha, singing Lionel Richie's "Hello" with the music teacher at our pen pal school. |
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