Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Cheshire Home

The Penang Branch held a talent show to entertain those that live at the Cheshire Home.

according to one website- 
Penang Cheshire Home is an organisation established to assist the physically disabled. 
It was established in 1978, and is one of hundreds of Cheshire Homes set up since 1948.

The Penang Cheshire Home, as is all the Cheshire Homes around the world, is named after Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire (1917-1992), one of the most decorated British Royal Air Force pilots of the Second World War. However the war, and particularly perhaps the atomic bomb dropped at Nagasaki - at which he was the official British observer - spurred him in a different direction, to eventually found the Leonard Cheshire Disability, an organisation that provides support to disabled people throughout the world. It remains one of the thirty top British charities.




Michelle singing
The Primary kids shared some favorite songs.


Addy wanted to dance for the crowd if Darby would get up with her!
Kameron playing a Pakistani song, using the table as a drum!

Some of the Ryan kids singing Frozen :)



Danielle dancing with some of the residents.

Sister Taputea announcing that she will share with us a Tahitian dance.

Darby danced also which you will see on the previous post. 
She prepared it about 10 minutes before we left that morning.


Darby's dance performance at The Cheshire Home

6th grade Band

Dalat International School held a band concert put on by the middle school. 
Jaxon has been learning the saxophone. 
I think he did really well considering he has only been playing it for 2 months!




Great job Jaxon!!!

Happy Chinese New Year!

CHINESE NEW YEAR-
It is a 15 day festival always beginning somewhere between mid-January and mid-February depending on the lunar cycle. Chinese New Year is the Chinese biggest tradition of the year.


Melynn was very excited to be in Asia for Chinese New Year and decided to celebrate with some chinese food. Here she is making spring rolls. She also made noodles and Nian Gao Cake for dessert. Melynn loves to be adventurous in the kitchen and I love the help!!!



A big part of CNY (chinese new year) are the traditional red envelopes called Hong Bao.
These are money gifts that adults will give to children.

The lady at the nail salon gave me a CNY pedicure :)
Our branch held a CNY party at the church. It started with an introduction and explained 
some of the traditions to us non-chinese that were in attendance.

The Chinese character "Fu" means fortune or good luck. During CNY it is posted upside down in many homes and businesses. This is because the character for "upside-down" is a homonym of the character "to arrive". So this means that good fortune is arriving.
2015 is the year of the goat. Some of the kids brought pictures they drew of goats.

We played some charades and other games. 


Some of the branch members singing the traditional CNY songs.
Melynn, Darby and Danielle