This week has been about the same as usual. Work, School, and play. For Activity Days we have been working on cultural awareness. We spent a week talking about how manners differ by culture, learning basic manners and some new words to use while dining. On Wednesday we took the girls out to eat to practice these manners. The girls seemed to really enjoy the activity.
Today was the first Saturday of the month- that means flea market! Okay, so maybe it's not exciting enough for that ! mark, but Lalee likes to think it is. And this time, we rented our own space. Let me back up just a bit. As you all know, Lalee applied for and was accepted as a participant for the Youth Yoron adventure that is coming up this month. She is stoked to be able to travel to another island, spend the week away from home with her Japanese hosts. Of course, mom and dad expected her to pay for 1/2 of her trip. At first, the idea of earning $275 was a very daunting task for Lalee. So Lalee decided to participate in the flea market. With mom's help she went through all the closets and cupboards and got everything ready for the flea market. You can't have yard sales on base here- it's against the rules. You can rent a parking space- literally, one parking space, in a parking lot during the flea market for $15.
(Towards the end when over 1/2 our stuff had already sold!) Set up was between 5:30-6:00. Of course you only have one parking spot so basically you only sell what you can cram into your vehicle. We got all set up and then hordes of local-nationals show up to buy whatever we Americans are pawning off. It's quite the crowd and can get a bit crazy. Lalee did well. She still needs to earn $20 but that's all and then Yoron, here she comes!
This week has been about the same as usual. Work, School, and play. For Activity Days we have been working on cultural awareness. We spent a week talking about how manners differ by culture, learning basic manners and some new words to use while dining. On Wednesday we took the girls out to eat to practice these manners. The girls seemed to really enjoy the activity.
Today was the first Saturday of the month- that means flea market! Okay, so maybe it's not exciting enough for that ! mark, but Lalee likes to think it is. And this time, we rented our own space. Let me back up just a bit. As you all know, Lalee applied for and was accepted as a participant for the Youth Yoron adventure that is coming up this month. She is stoked to be able to travel to another island, spend the week away from home with her Japanese hosts. Of course, mom and dad expected her to pay for 1/2 of her trip. At first, the idea of earning $275 was a very daunting task for Lalee. So Lalee decided to participate in the flea market. With mom's help she went through all the closets and cupboards and got everything ready for the flea market. You can't have yard sales on base here- it's against the rules. You can rent a parking space- literally, one parking space, in a parking lot during the flea market for $15.
(Towards the end when over 1/2 our stuff had already sold!)
2 comments:
Wow looks like a fun HUGE garage sale!
It's fun. Nice because you go "Yard saling" and there are like 40 'yard sales' in one place and it doesn't end up taking up the whole weekend. 5:00-10:00 and then you are done. You have the rest of the weekend to do things :)
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