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‎"telling someone what they have to learn is a long and tortuous road, often ineffective; giving someone the opportunity to explore what their brain finds particularly interesting at the time opens the gateway to optimization of that individuals potential" anon
 

This week has seen a lot of good old fashioned hard work for me. No complaints as I was needing a work out or to and look forward to doing much more. As well as continuing to clear odds and sods of rubble from the grounds of Stratton House, I have also been collecting our first donation of rubble, from our local Building supplies outlet , about 4 kilos up the road to Banthi from us.

Doing a couple of loads a day, with help from Somboon on the last day, that rubble is now down on our “track”.

But as you will see from the photos we are still in need of much much more.

If you have any rubble you need clearing, or know of any sites with a likely looking pile we could enquire about,  please let us know.

 

Another great improvement to the facilities at Stratton House draws closer as Kira and Wan from Art Relief International arrived today for consultation and ordering of materials for the building of the children’s playground, which starts next week.

First job was to offload a large pile of car tyres they had brought with them.

Taking the short drive, ten minutes up the road towards Banthi, we visited the local building materials supply business of which we have been a long term customer.

With lots of good advice and good prices Kira and Wan went ahead and ordered various materials such as sand and cement, concrete pipe sections, blocks and tools, which will all be delivered tomorrow ready for the build start on Monday next.

 

shop2Another productive day yesterday, partly due to the school in Banthi still being part closed due to Teachers being at some event elsewhere.

This meant I had much more time than I expected to work on filling the ‘shelves’ in our online shop which I hope to have truely online by the end of the weekend.

I have a meeting with webmaster Ally on Friday.

As with all this computer technology it will take me time to acclimatise to using the software to its best potential so you will no doubt see continual changes, hopefully for the better as time progresses.

 

17Part of the joy of running The Stratton ABC Foundation is getting to see yet more of what goes on in Thai society. Last week was the culmination of many weeks practice at school for the children, when a major inter school running competition was held for the local schools in and around Banthi, over two days.

As Jack was in his grades running team we felt it important to go and give our support, and I was glad we did.

Held at the local Government Office grounds, it was quite an impressive event. Commitments here at Stratton House meant that we could only manage afternoons, but we got to see plenty of the excitement.

Day one was apparently ‘practice rounds, in preperation for the serious competition the next day.

d26There were stands and awnings erected around the outside of the sportsfield for all the different schools and their supporters.

Local vendors were also present selling a wide variety of food, drinks and toys.

Each school had an active cheering and drumming crew making plenty of noise during every race, all in all a fantastic atmosphere.

All the children taking part put their heart into it and I think winners and losers alike should all be very proud of themselves.

129Our team from Jacks school did reasonably well, taking home several medals and their fair share of the Trophies at the end of the second day.

Well done everyone!!!

For lots more great photos of the event please visit our photo bucket album here.

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