We are blessed!
Friday, October 26th, 2007As an extra bit of volunteer work (as if we weren’t worn out enough by shovelling all the sand and gravel for the water filters!) we got involved in building a make-shift classroom at a voluntarily run school at one of the local Bhuddist temples. This involved sawing and hammering to build chairs and tables for the extra 100 children who wanted to attend. At the completion of construction the chief monk wanted to bless us with holy water which basically involved him and his assistant throwing buckets of cold water over us (I’m the chubby, bald, pale looking one)……
In the intrests of decency, Dulcie wasn’t able to de-robe in the same manner as us blokes so we asked the monk to only splash a little water. Unfortunately this seemed to get translated to “a right good soaking” so Dulcie dripped all the way home (much to the annoyance of the tuk-tuk driver).
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