We haul to sing! 我们唱歌了! We finally accepted that these kids are too athletic for us anyways so decided to do some singing/chanting. I'm telling you, this one school had "we will rock you" down pretty good. Tons of energy, feet stomping and hands clapping. Hayes has a bit of a voice on him. We had a blast. 我们不得不承认孩子们太有感染力了,我们唱起歌来。我告诉你们,这个学校把那首“we will rock you”唱的相当不错,躲脚,拍手,活力四射啊!Hayes唱得不错,大家都很有激情。 Now getting to these children was also a blast... We only cycled about *65 kilometres today. We had some serious climbs on this trek. We had stretches of 10 - 20 km in windy roads going up hill at a steep incline. Occasionally we would be rewarded with 1 or 2 km of down hill but shortly after there would be another climb just waiting for us. Now the view was gorgeous. We were on the side of a cliff for the majority of it over looking endless amounts of vegetation. But during these up hill stretches I was not going very fast at all. 和这些孩子们在一起本身就富有激情。今天我们才骑了65公里,这一段路爬起来非常吃力,还顶风在一个陡峭的山坡爬了20公里,期间偶尔有个1-2公里的下坡做为奖励,但是紧接着就是另外一个上坡。现在的风景美极了,我们基本沿着一个陡峭的悬崖骑着,旁边是一望无际的田野。这段上坡路我根本没办法快起来。 Confessions pt 1: 忏悔录1: I'm grinding away at this mountain in 1st gear thinking to myself "I think I'm going at about walking speed right now." Then I hear some laughter. I look to my right and left and there some kids whom we gave equipment to, WALKING up this mountain beside me... Their laughing and muttering the words "sorry" and "you" to me. I try to smile but really I just want to sing the rest of "eye of a tiger" to myself and finish this climb. And then all of a sudden, I feel like I get a second wind and pick up the pace. The kids are now jogging to keep up beside me! Then I look directly behind me and I see 3 of the kids jogging and pushing my trailer up this hill... 我是用一档在磨蹭着,认为自己将和走路一样快,然后听到一阵笑声。我顺着笑声看过去,周围有些我们刚才给过器材的孩子们,他们走在我旁边翻过这座山,他们对我笑,对我说一两个简单的单词。我真想对他们笑笑,但是我实际上是想对我自己唱完“老虎的眼睛”的剩余部分并且完成这次翻越。但是我突然间感觉好笑是顺风推着我走了一截,孩子们跑到了我旁边!我再往后一看,他们中间的3个人在帮我推着车。 My first instinct was to say to them: 我本能的想对他们说: "No my little mountain angel children of Laos. Please stop pushing me. I don't need your help, and I'm sure this isn't overly safe either! Thank you for your generous offer! 不,老挝的山里的孩子们,别推我啦,我不需要你们的帮忙,这也不安全!谢谢你们的慷慨帮助! But before I could mutter those words out I start thinking the following: 但是在我能说出这些话之前我却又想: - "well we are promoting exercise, nothing says exercise like a little weighted mountain run for these guys" 好吧,反正我们是在提倡锻炼,没什么比这样负重翻山更能锻炼这些孩子们了 - this is good altitude training for them 这是个非常好的锻炼机会 - "this gives them a chance to work on their teamwork and camaraderie" 这让他们有了个团队合作加深友谊的机会 - " they are laughing, and if I make them stop pushing me they would probably stop laughing. Maybe they would cry. Wehaul2play doesn't want to make kids cry" 他们在笑着,如果我不让他们推了,他们可能就会不笑了。没准还会哭,Wehaulplay可不想让孩子们哭 - "these kids live on these mountains, they'll have a better idea than I for when the semi trucks are coming. They can warn me!" 这些孩子们就生活在山里,他们比我更明白什么时候半挂车会出现,他们能提醒我! So the children pushed me up the mountain for about 75 metres. 于是孩子们帮着推了我有75米啊。 I just finished reading the wehaul2play charter code of conduct rules and regulations and there are are no rules against cycling assistance. I was technically still riding my bicycle and trailer. However because of my conscience I will put an asterisk beside today's entry in my diary. I am sorry to all the people whom I've let down and disappointed. 我刚刚想了想wehaul2play活动的章程,好像没有规定不允许接受这样的帮忙,而且他们推我时我绝对没有停止卖力,还一直用力蹬着,好吧出于良知,我还是要在今天的日记里打个双引号,对不起了,我让大家失望了! Hayes is a machine and these climbs seem like nothing to him. He'll do a 20km climb and then be playing soccer with some kids whiles I gasp for oxygen. It's a good system we have. Hayes简直就是个机器啊,这些大山对他来说就像是平地,他可以骑过20公里的山坡然后马上跟孩子们踢足球,而我只能在旁边喘气。我们配合的多好。 Right now we are staying at a guest house at the top of a mountain. The view is incredible. We plan on waking up early and doing a big ride tomorrow so I will shut it down here.现在我们在山顶的一个客房待着,风景没的说,我们计划明天早一点出发多赶点路,今天就到这吧。 I love all of y'all
我爱你们! Cyril
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Burt-Rocco.Fang
12/21/2013 08:40:31 pm
I read the paragraph you write already. Every picture are very beautiful. Children's smile should be very happiness. I love this kind of feeling. Hope you can help children more and more. Also you need pay attention on your safety. Have a nice travel!!!!!
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Mr.Hayes
12/23/2013 03:50:54 pm
Thanks Rocco for the encouragement...we are taking every safety measure we can when we are out on the road, but you never can be too careful. I am glad you are enjoying our travels...make sure you exercise over the break!
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Dee
12/22/2013 12:52:32 am
Yes, Burt couldn't have said it better. PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR OWN SAFETY! Are you on par for course?
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Paul Hayes
12/23/2013 03:52:30 pm
We had. Little set back due to our Vietnamese visas...but we will be back on the road tomorrow...
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