Stellin Shwe directing music

About a month and a half ago I was in the middle of our corn field doing a happy dance. The corn was taller than me and looking so strong! All our hard work had paid off and the corn was growing taller and faster than we had hoped. The following day we show up to the farm and a great amount of the corn had fallen over! I was devastated! The previous night there was a huge storm. The rain flattened out the mounds that the corn root buried itself into and with no foundation; all 7 feet of the corn had fallen over. Also there were some casualties just because the wind was so strong as well. Upon seeing the damage that was done I knew that we needed to fix the problem. So I cancelled planting beans and tending to our other farm in order to keep this corn alive. We went through each row and created stronger rows and mounded them up. We went in the jungle and cut down 10 foot long sticks to dig in next to each plant and we tied the corn to the stick so it could stand up straight. This process took 3 days to accomplish.

The sunflower is named for its ability to follow the sun in the course of a day. They can grow to be 12 feet tall under the right conditions. The students and I enjoyed watching our little “Sunflower” grow to 6 foot and live a happy, healthy, and full life.

Dear friends, We made prayer requests for the employee (Surachai) and student (Moepalay) who were injured in a motorcycle accident. Here is the latest update.