Mission accomplished!

What an amazing week these kids have put in! It is now Thursday so we have officially been here a week. Wednesday and Thursday were basically spent in flight and at airports. Everyone came over safely and with all their luggage intact. We had a long layover in Taiwan on Friday so we went on a tour of the city with James which you already have pictures of.
Saturday we got our first view of the kids and the school. We are in Phang Na which is about an hour and a half away from Phuket. We are not working with the orphans of Phuket as I thought but a lovely group of school children age 6 to 13 (I think) in this lush jungley area. There are around 58 children and they have attached themselves permanently to our Youth Linc kids, lining the road way every morning as our buses roll in to wave us into the school area. They bring our children treats and homemade items and pictures they drawn or had taken for our kids to always remember them. Every Youth Linc kid has a little group of 4 or 5 kids clustered to them every minute the children are not in class. Saturday was the opening ceremonies which I have blogged about already and then Sunday started the work. From Sunday to yesterday which was Wednesday, the YouthLinc kids accomplished the following: dug out and paved and cemented a long pathway from the paviliion to the bathrooms to the classrooms, cleared out and graveled and painted a playground area-playground equipment forthcoming, medical center created with cabinets hospital beds and stocked supplies, installed a sump for the restroom with outside sinks, grease trap and sump for the kitchen,provided tile to complete tiling of the cafeteria floor and restroom, dug holes and installed three new water tanks and two new pumps for the three wells the school draws water from, material for new piping and electrical hook ups, provided electrical fans for cafeteria, classrooms and medical center, septic tanks installed, and painted a beautiful mural for and with the kids on the front of the cafeteria wall. Awesome Youth Linc kids!!!!!