ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS

Dear Teachers and children of Vinson Own School.

We had another wonderful visit to Butiyang Hamlet, Les village yesterday..... The community is still working on the end of the road about the last 50 meters long in the bottom of the hill closer to the village.

We were greeted by the community who was working on the path and also the children came down from the Hamlet to also greet us....

As we gathered along the finished path just above the path they were working on, I presented them with all your questions I have printed and brought along with me........

Viebeke

Dear Les Village,

We are glad that you like your new road. It took a lot of hard work to
make and we are glad that we were able to help.Who is kudeta and I'm an angel. Did they fund the road too? KU DE TA is a name of a very famous restaurant club located by the beach in Seminyak area. I'm an angel is Ku de ta's fundraising group who supported all my program, they have matched your fund to meet all the costs beside the material cost of the road which consist of cement, sand and the food for work which was allocated for your funding. I’m an angel, Give back to Bali would then fund the food (mixed rice and milk) for the children each time we visited them. They also share the operation cost, and mostly they appreciate very much all your efforts to do fundraising for the people to help build their road.

It's been fun watching the progress of the road. We would like to continue to learn about you and your village.


We have some questions for you:

Is it easier to travel with the new road? Yes, it has been much easier for us to travel on the new road, it make our life easier. We can transport our produce much easier and get a better price from the buyers
Is the road done or are you going to extend it further? We would love to extend our road further to be able to reach our brothers and sisters who live across our hamlet, although we share the same hamlet but we need a bridge to connect us with them
Will you build other roads? Yes if have fund to connect our road with the road to the village to make our access more easier
Do any vehicles travel on the road? Yes, we now can access the road with motorcycle and in emergency we can also use 4 wheel car, but the road is very steep and a bit dangerous, we have to be very carefull when we use the road
How many packs of cement did you actually use? So far we have finished 271 sack of cement and we will need around 50 packs more to just finished the 800 meters. We thought that we only have 700 meters road but apparently the road was about 800 meters long

Enjoy the road and we hope to hear from you soon.
Ms. G.'s Fourth Grade Class

QUESTIONS FROM STUDENTS

EMAIL FROM STUDENTS OF VINSON OWEN SCHOOL, BOSTON-USA



Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:40 AM
Subject: Road -les village boston schools


> Dear Viebeke,
> We anxiously await updated pictures and completion of the road. Enclosed
> are questions and comments from all of the grade levels in Winchester.
> Please post them at your convenience as the kids are looking at the blog
> site everyday and also await your answers to their questions and to see
> the final product.
> Sincerely,
> Kerry Brodeur
>
> Dear Les Village,
>
> We are glad that you like your new road. It took a lot of hard work to
> make and we are glad that we were able to help.Who is kudeta and I'm an
> angel. Did they fund the road too? It's been fun watching
> the progrss of the road. We would like to continue to learn about you and
> your village.
>
> We have some questions for you:
>
> Is it easier to travel with the new road?
> Is the road done or are you going to extend it further?
> Will you build other roads?
> Do any vehicles travel on the road?
> How many packs of cement did you actually use?
>
> Enjoy the road and we hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Ms. G.'s Fourth Grade Class
>
> Is the road finished?
> Will people drive on the road?
> How long did it take you to build the road?
> How many people helped to build it?
> How long is the road?
> When did you start building it?
> The kids love looking at the pictures!
> Miss Senesi
> Grade 1
>
> Dear Les village,
> How much time do you spend working on the road each day?
> Why don't you use machines on the road?
> Are people not working other jobs when they are working on the road?
> How long will it take to walk from one end of the road to the other?
> How many people helped in doing the work?
> How much progress did you make each day?
> Were the kids allowed to help?
>
> These questions were asked by two second grade classrooms, Mr. Krane's and
> Ms. Morgese's, from the Vinson Owen school.
>
> Dear Les Village,
> Have you finished paving the road? Will you send us a video of the
> completed work? How long did it take you to build the blog? How many
> people were working on the road from the community? Did any children from
> Les village help make the road? We raised a lot of money and we really
> enjoy seeing the progress you have been making with the road. Please send
> us more pictures on the blog. We will check the blog 3 times a week to see
> any updated information. Thanks again for your efforts and cooperation.
> Miss Brodeur's third grade class.
>
> Dear Les village,
> We have a few questions for you. Is it really hot in Indonesia? Do you
> play sports or games after school? What is your school day like? Is the
> road finished yet, and are you excited to have this road? Is it fun
> building the road? How long is the road, and how will you travel on the
> road? What transportation will you use? Are you using machines to build
> the road, or just shovels? What is the time difference between Mass. and
> Indonesia? How many hours a day, do you work on the road? How many people
> are working on the road? Do you have cars in Indonesia?
> We would love to hear the answer to these questions. Please send more
> pictures, we really enjoyed looking at them. Do you have any questions
> about us? What are you going to do with the extra money?
> We will continue to check the blog.
> Mrs. Pappas' third grade class
>
> Dear People of Les Village,
>
> We think you did a great job on your road. You've been working really
> hard since you started in August. We're happy that you made the road, and
> we're happy the money we collected helped you to do it.
>
> There are a few things we are wondering:
> How long did you work on the road? Is it all finished or do you have a
> little more work to do? How many feet long is the road? How many rocks
> did you need to use to build the road? How has the road helped your
> village?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mrs. Rizzuti's First Grade Class
> Vinson-Owen School
>
> Hello people of Les Village!
>
> How are you? It looks like the road is almost done! Congratulations! Is
> there anything left to do on the road? How are your lives different with
> the new road? When you worked on the road, did you still have time to
> spend with your families? Do the kids like their school? Is there any
> leftover money from the road? Is it easier to get water now? Is your
> community growing larger now?
>
> We are getting ready to go to VO on Skates. The whole school goes to a
> skating rink to skate together as a community. Does your school do any
> all school activites like that? We are going on vacation at the end of
> the day.
>
> We hope the road turns out really nice.
>
> Yours truly,
> Mrs. Crowley's third grade class
>
> p.s. Write back soon!
>
> Here are some insights and questions from my class:
>
> We are very impressed with your progress on the road and with your ability
> to work together as a community to get this road built! Looking at the
> road reminds us of some of the roads we have here in Massachusetts and how
> some roads are similar to yours, but most of our roads here are very
> different. We have some questions and can't wait to learn more about the
> road. We were wondering:
>
> When you finish with the road, will you plan to build another road?
> How long did you work on the road each day and was it really hot while you
> were working?
> Do you work on the road all day? Do the kids help and when would they
> help?
> How did you learn how to build a road? Do you get paid for your work?
> We just studied simple machines. Do you use machines to build the road?
> Which ones?
> How many bags of cement did you use?
> How is the road helping the school and village?
> How did you feel before/during/ and after the road was completed?
>
> Thanks for putting our ideas on the blog. My kids thought it looked like
> a bike path,
> See you soon,
> Mrs. sheenahan
> 5th grade
> Dear Les Village,
> -Are they finished with the road now?
> -Do they have roads like we so here?
> -Do they have scooters or cars?
> -How did they build the road and how did they know what steps were needed
> to build a good road?
> -How many people helped? How many hours a day did they work?
> -Is it what they expected it to be?
> -Why is it bumpy?
> -How many people live in the village?
> -What are the children learning in school
> -The class also offer congradulations on a job well done and wishes them
> luck in anything that may need to be completed.
> Miss Ulman