Loreto Team A Update

This is an email from Loreto A received lunch time Saturday 15th Jan:
This is a long update on Loreto team A's trip through Vietnam. Continuing on from where we left off is the trek. The first day of the trek we walked 7km in the fog of the mountains and stayed at a lovely home stay, surprisingly it was new years eve for them. The next day we woke for the 18km walk up and over and back down the mountain side, the view was amazing and the next day we proceeded with another 6km trek where we excitedly ended at our community project. The 16 of us met with school staff to discuss the next couple of days and that night we got comfortable at our home stay and hid ourselves within our sleeping bags a it was always around 8c degrees, which was a shock for all of us. It was the day of the project and we slipped on old clothes and gloves and got to work with the cementing of the playground. The next day we awoke to a clear sky to proceed wit cementing and shovelling and redecorating the classroom. It became to b the next morning where it poured with rain meaning we couldn't continue cementing, so we decided to paint the classroom and the school. We were all feeling a little low because we hadn't had the chance to play with the kids because school was cancelled because it was under 10 degrees. But after all or hard work all the school kids appeared and we gave them our donations. To see their smiling faces lifted our spirits as we played with them all afternoon and they gave us great performance and even we performed. We said our farewells and packed our bags for Hoi an.