Last week I had the time of my live. Together with a group of 24 people with a mental handicap I went to Merelbeke, not far from Gent in Belgium, to give them the week of there live.
Of course I wasn't the only one to take take of that group of people. There were 11 volenteers who were there to entertain the groupe and to take care of the people.
It is so rewarding to see those people enjoy. And that gives the power to me to do this every year. The people that are going on the trip with us, are all adults. They all have a different dissability, so that is even a bigger challenge.
We did a lot of things with the group. We went to visit Gent by boat. And for me that was a big challenge. The guy, I will call him P, that I took care of, is a very challenging person to take care of. Especially when we went on the boat. He doesn't like water and boats so we thought that he wouldn't go on that boat. It took us 5 people and some strenght to get him on that boat. And the time we were putting him on the boat he didn't wanted to do that, but as soon a he was on the boat there was a smily on his face. He was enjoying the boattrip. He was waving to all the people that we saw. Those little smiles make my day.
The other things we did were bowling, a trip to the Belgian coast, walking, swimming, coocking... all kinds of stuff.
Most of the adults who came to the trip were smiling all the time. For most of them this is the only vacation that they have during the year. They are so happy that they can come with us to a place that they have never been to.
And for us, it is a very rewarding week. But at the end we are tiered. But at those moments, we have the adults to smile at us and to give us some strengt again to go to the next activity and to do it with the power of the first day.
We came home yesterday, and today we are already looking for a place to go to next year, and you want to know why, because we love to give those people the time of there life.
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