Day 3

March 27, 2008 12:30 pm

We just returned from Sister Bongs convent a few minutes from our hotel. The convent is beautiful and lush. Within the convent there are residential houses and a preschool, too. We worked with the aspirants, who are in the process of becoming nuns of the convent, with their English skills. First we sang songs with them, which they loved and then we broke into small groups to work on conversational skills. Mikaila and I took our group of 6 girls out into the garden to teach them some of the names of items we saw. They showed us around the convent and we saw little puppies running all around and a pig pen and a Coi Pond. They also have a pet monkey who I fell in love with instantaneously. I held his hand for a long time and wanted to take him home with me. After we were shown around the convent we played games with them and they were so appreciative of our help and small talk. We will be returning tomorrow to continue working with them.