Malaise, Meetings and Mountains

Julley everyone!!!

Our first entry for 2008!!
Its been quite a first week with the whole team getting sick (oh so very sick) and lots of planning and of course- amazing views of the mountains. We are off to the villages tomorrow for 10 days to do a 2-day Health Worker training workshop, check out the village where the playground will go and to see some great kids!

Hope you are all well,
2008 Team (Lex, Jen, Kate, Aaron, Eileen & Theresa)


Captions (hopefully in the right order!)

Picture #1: Jen in a hardware store scouting out local materials- they pack so much into these tiny shops!

Picture #2: If you can believe this view- what we wake up to evey morning while at the guest house in Leh. Especially good when lying in bed sick for days.

Picture #3: Jen and Aaron (on Lex's bed) flaked out from malaise. This is what we all looked like for about 3 days.

Picture #4: Aaron with Stanzin and Dorjay at the Tibetan Children's Village checking out their playground. These kids are amazing!!

Picture #5: The team!

2008 Team- Counting down the hours...

Hi again everyone!

We can hardly believe its been a year...we are scheduled to depart in less than 48 hours for the 2nd summer in Ladakh!
The team this year is:
Kate Wishart, SLP (2nd year)
Marcy Adler-Bock, SLP (1st year)
Jen Sawrenko, OT (1st year)
Alexis Davis, OT (2nd year)
Aaron Wieler, Designer (1st year) from Design for Development (a partner NGO in Vancouver)
Eileen Fogarty-Ellis, Teacher (1st year)
Theresa McElroy, OT/Researcher (2nd year)

A few things on the agenda for this year are: a qualitative ethnographic research study looking at community beliefs and attitudes of disability; health training camps in Khaltse; helping to establish a sign language system; and building an inclusive playground in Dhomkar Dho---we're going to be busy! Talk again very soon from Ladakh!