Hi everyone, it’s Yu here.

Apologies for the lack of posts! R&S has been on vacation from June – August, but the title reveals it all –> Starting from August 14th, students will be returning to NIS (our school) and we’ll be back in the game! I’ve really been brainstorming this summer, and hopefully we’ll have some ambitious new projects to undertake. Here are some ideas we have in mind:

1) Continuation and Improvement of our Recycling Program — with our new funds, we will be, in essence, ‘upgrading’ our recycling program. We need to make our paper and plastic bottle recycling program bigger and better to fully accomodate the needs of our school. The current recycled paper bins we have are never big enough to hold all the paper we collect each week, so we will be buying new ones. In addition, our plastic bottle recycling bins, despite having no problems with volume, are in quite a state of disrepair. I suppose it happens, when bins are forced to withstand not only the elements, but loads and loads of plastic bottles, day after day.

2) Canvas, not Plastic! – R&S has quite a lot of canvas bags in supply. At NIS’s first PTG meeting, R&S set up a booth to sell our canvas bags, and were able to sell quite a lot! We also had posters showcasing our previous projects to let parents know how awesome our members are.

3) Temple Aid Program — In collaboration with Care for Dogs will be starting a temple aid program, in which R&S members will be responsible for the care of all the dogs at one temple. I’m going to be meeting up with Ally sometime before school begins, hoepfully, to find out further details about this exciting new project. I’m determined to make this program succeed!

4) Completion of this Weblog! – It’s been long overdue! It’s quite unfortunate that this blog has sporadic updates at best, when in fact, NIS R&S is a very active organization. We do a lot of things, but we just never have time to write about them! Hopefully, I’ll be able to catch up on some updates!

 For now, this is adios! Once I’m back in Chiang Mai, I’ll upload some pictures and write up a post on all the things we’ve done last year.