I went to the Caribbean…

Hey guys,

I’ve told you a lot about the work I do – but: it is not only work I do (fortunately! )

Last week we had a great Summerparty in the KHT that is celebrated every year. There’s always a motto that has to be chosen  and this time it was…*tadatataaataaataaaa* THE CARIBBEAN! Sound nice, hu? Well, you guys, it was !

I want to tell you everything about it – there’s just one thing that’s bugging me, I had no camera there and all the people who took pictures have not given them to me yet… Please forgive me, I’ll try to make it as vivid as possible and add the real pictures later!

Here goes!

The KHT possesses a beautiful garden at the back of the building – there is a round place of meadow, framed by a little river with tiny bridges and nice flowers and trees. So romantic! Allocated inside of this garden we’ve built up stands with different titles and tasks, that I will present to you later on. Every stand was individually decorated – that is to say, there were huge colourful flowers attached to the tents, big, individually painted signs that told you about the stand you were about to visit and moreover each stand was decorated individually of course!

We had festoons everywhere, palm trees, hammocks and moreover everybody dressed up according to the theme!

Then we had a little program, that is to say:

• that there was a performance of a band and a choir (they consisted of helpers and the handicapped!) who played a Spanish song together,
• our Capoeira group gave us a little show of what they’ve learned so far
• and also the therapeutic-dance-group showed us some extracts
• there came a real Caribbean drum group and performed for us – we all sang and danced together!

Now, as promised, here comes a list of all the stands there were:

1. Quiz-Stand - here you could do a quiz about the Caribbean, paint in different pictures and then you got a button for it, with the painting you’ve created before on it! –> good for general knowledge
2. Make-Up-Stand – one could get painted to fit even more into this Caribbean atmosphere. The paintings were mostly flowers and tribal patterns that were painted on arms, cheeks, necks, … everywhere –> good for fun
3. Tropical-Fruit-Stand – there were all different sorts of fruit laid down on a great table, so e.g. pine apple, star fruits, mangos and so on, and one could try them – but : there was a tricky part! You were blindfolded and had to taste which fruit it was! –> good for sensitization of senses
4. Music-Stand – there were about 20 drums, so that we could all play a rhythm together and dance! –> good for coordination and feeling for rhythm
5. Relaxation-Stand – here one could find hammocks under palm trees and get little back massages!
6. Bottle-Message-Stand – one could fill coloured sand into little glass bottles and then send it to someone special! Everybody did great patterns with the different colours – this looked so nice! –> good for coordination (filling in was difficult)
7. Game-Stand – one could throw balls through the holes of a self-made, beautiful, huge traditional mask and hit some balls with it (like canned-throwing, do you remember that?) –> good for coordination
8. Horse-Riding-Stand - there was the possibility to attend therapeutic horse riding, and even wheelchair users could do it! This was amazing to watch – the smiles and the joy on their faces when they were up there, impayable! –> good for coordination and sensitization of senses
9. Treasury-Stand – they build up a boat with sand and palm trees and somewhere there was a treasure hidden. You got there through answering questions and shoveling sand aside. –> good for general knowledge and fun
10. Cocktail-Stand – we had three different kinds of non-alcoholic cocktails and they’ve tasted really nice! –> good for fun
    
11. Food-Stand – our kitchen team provided some really tasty food! We had rice with coco-banana-curry-chicken/vegetables and a BBQ! And: they even prepared dessert! So tasty! *yummy* –> good for hunger

It was just so bright and colourful! You definitely should have seen that!

I hope, you’ve got a little impression of the summerparty and as soon as I get pictures, you’ll get them too!

Love