Bula Gang,
It was all fun and games when some Aussie visitors organised for the kids to have dinner at Maccas š Everyone was very excited and all dressed up nicely. I looked after Moses as Iām a favourite of his, he was a good little boy who walked the 5Ā min walk holding my hand and didnāt look to run off at all. He enjoyed looking at the cars at the mechanics pointing and saying ācars, carsā!
All the other children were also well behaved and looked both ways when crossing the road in single file hehe.
A lot of the kids had face painting and enjoyed playing in the playground. Maccas here looks exactly the same as in Australia and menu seems to also be basically the same. The visitors also paid for the staff and me to have dinner yay! I hadnāt had Maccas since I left Aussie in Juneā¦ it tastes just as good here too š although looking after Moses, I had to wait to eat mine since he couldnāt grasp how to eat the burger. I broke it up into little pieces and with each piece he wanted a sip of coke. I now understand how those mums feel eating a cold meal because they had to help their small child.
The older girls had their eyes glued to the TV on the wall playing the chart music & video clips. Being a family place everything was tasteful, no Nicki Minaj Anaconda haha!
More visitors donated toys and play dough has been a huge success. The toddlers have one each and it keeps them amused for ages, even if they are just breaking it into little pieces and putting it back into theĀ containers. Some havenāt really caught on to making shapes just yet. Similar with puzzles, Caleb much prefers to empty the puzzle bag and then put each piece back into the bag haha.
I got chatting one afternoon with the director who drops down a few times a month from Suva. She is a lovely lady who accompanied the supervisor to Australia recently. A Melbourne family sponsored them to travel as they donated a large amount of money for furniture etc for the orphanage. They sent a team to check if the money was spent correctly, their holiday was a Thank You for the efforts. Anyway, there was a little Indo-Fijian girl playing that I had never met before and she didnāt look like she would be a new child. She called the director Mummy and I realised she must have adopted her, then one of the other staff said she was brought to the Treasure House as a new born and the director and her husband adopted her. She already had 3 sons, so I thought this was lovely and also that it didnāt matter if she was Fijian or Indian.
Caleb and I had a high 5 in the toilet when he managed to not wetĀ his pants and wee’dĀ in the toilet, like heās supposed to YAY! Toilet training is a bit inconsistent between different staff members, thatās why itās taking so long and 2 and 3 year olds are still in nappies.
Sometimes when youāre missing your friends and family back at home, these lil people instantly make you feel better! Their bright smiles, big eyes, abundance of hugs and all the funny ways they try to say Alice, is a definite pick me up!
Leaving it on that happy note š
Vinaka Vakalevu
Loloma Levu xox
Alice Sophiarcely Travels 