C21 Cambodia day 5

Sad sia, today day 5, last day here. Going to airport soon. Right now, 6am, typing whatever I feel like typing here. Firstly , I would like to thank the teachers for taking their time to organise the event, taking time to plan the activities and taking care of us. Secondly, I would like to thank the tour guides for patiently explaining to us and cracking jokes with us it really gave us a good time. Especially Mr Dara. I find that he is the bet tour guide :p but the others are also good too. It was hard to say good bye. :( During this short 5 gives, I learned a lot. Especially the lives of people living in poverty, how sad and difficult their life must have been.

 During this short period of 5 days, the main thing I learned from them was to be strong, to persevere no matter how tough it is, how bad their living environment is, no sanitation, no healthcare, insufficient food, insufficient clothing. Everyday, no matter how tough it is, this believe, the shear hope that tomorrow will be better, it is this believe that drives them going. I also from them to appreciate whatever you've got. Actually, to me, it is quite embarrassing, we, people living in a first world country, we have everything, yet we don't appreciate anything, we take everything for granted. It really saddens me, compared to them, they,the food, if they cannot finish it, they will not throw it away. They will leave it over night even though the food will attract flies and pests, they will still eat it the following day for breakfast? I suppose.

I've also learned from them that e should not only help ourselves but the people around us too. In the village in Cambodia where were donating clothes, there is this 12 year old girl who have to take care of 2 younger siblings, no job, no house, no food. Thankfully, her neighbour is nice enough to build for her a house, provide food and helps her take care of her siblings when she is in school. Such selflessness displayed by her neighbour, we should all learn from her.

Thirdly, to be more happy :D. When I visited the village school the children there were very happy, playing around. Despite living in poverty, they are all enjoying themselves playing, thankful for whatever they have. Compared to us, even though e have everything, look at us, are we happy? We all have that glum look on our face, caused by stress and workload.

Finally, I would like to thank the tour guides and teachers again. This has been one of the more memorable trips. It is sad and hard to say goodbye. I'm gonna miss this place. I will put all the fun we had, the good food that was provided, the time spent together, the people we meet in memory. Thank you all, for making this trip so memorable.

This is Tang yanfeng, signing off.