From Rockstar’s school email..
“According to the Asian Development Bank, in the Philippines, every year a child spends in school reduces their chances of living in poverty. While Government sponsored schools are free, children must pay for their school uniforms, which includes shoes. If the child does not have shoes, they cannot attend school. When….. …..all the money they earn in a day is spent to buy food… – when faced with the decision of whether to buy food for their family or a pair of shoes – they will choose food. ..”
Last year Rockstar’s school collected 577 pairs; this year it was a whopping 940 pairs of shoes. As an added bonus the kids got to wear casual shoes to school, if they donated their school ones.
And so this is Rockstar rolling downhill in his precious Heelys and carrying his shoes for donation to the bus stop. We live furthest away from the stop and do a morning run every day – this time, this is a HUGE PLUS.
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Then the Rockstars had another birthday party at Ryze, Ultimate Trampoline Park over the weekend, and ended up canvassing to be brought back the next day. Rockstar’s at Full-on Front Somersault, the Miss is at Fling-Herself-In-With-Abandon, I’m at Here Are A Bunch of Blurry Pictures Of Flying Kids In A Huge Padded Room.
The attendants were Erm… You Should Probably Put The Ryze Band On Her Ankle… They repeatedly tried to fish a flailing Miss out of the foam block pits, whereupon they would get “No. Let me do by self.” (And did anyone notice the blurry flying child-who-is-not-mine caught in the frame above this one? :D)
(Note how high the bags and other obstacles are placed – the older kids don’t just jump and touch them, one or two can actually hold on for a couple seconds…! It’s great they have “flight attendants” with very loud whistles all over the place; they enforce safety rules quite strictly (no climbing, no sharing trampolines, at one point Rockstar got whistled off for lightly placing his foot on it (he was trying to feel the rope before it was his turn, his first time) while another child hadn’t quite gotten off the other end of the rope yet…
Hope your weekend was good. Ours was kinda…. airborne. And we’ve still got more…
(Oh yeah, and the Guinea Pig is visiting too; this is the Miss telling the dog off for pinching some of his food)
Good charity work by the school. Hope many children get shoes that fit.
Both Rockstars sure had fun at this trampoline place. Guinea Pig has a personal groomer.
He’s quite spunky… Initially he would squeak for attention when some of us walked by… Now he’s at squeaking for attention the moment he hears the bedroom door open! Also, he’s invited himself into the dog’s bed basket… We shooed him out really fast though, because if he pees in there JD will be very upset and being male he does mark around the home a little…