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We apologise for not updating you sooner but here is a summary of the past three days of our world Challenge adventure. Day 8 On sunday we made the decision as a group that we needed an extra day of resting at the same hotel in Siem Reap before our long bus trip to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This put us a day behind schedule according to our itinerary and therefore we cut our trek down to three days. We spent Sunday adjusting our itinerary and getting the rest we needed after five long working days in the heat at the orphanage. Day 9 Monday we were up nice and early to catch a bus to Phnom Penh. The bus trip took six hours and we arrived at our new accomodation called the Longlin ... read more

So I would just like to start of this blog by saying that its was 40 degrees today!!!! We went back to the orphanage, and broke up into two groups. One went to the market to get food for our lunch and for the kids lunch, and one went to continue building our brick wall. It was a real experience for the people that went to the market because of the extreme smell and begging, not like our usual markets back home. For lunch the ladies plus the people who went to the market made us noddles, vegetables and rice, it was sooo good! Although everyone was pretty keen to keep going after lunch the heat stopped us from building anymore, so we just sat and talked to the kids at the orphanage which was a ... read more

We really thought the temple of Angkor Wat were the most beautiful thing we'd ever see, that was until we rocked up at the orphanage and were greeted by the beautiful smiling faces of the children. Walking down the muddy path into the orphanage was an experience for everybody because it was flooded waist deep in areas. We were greeted by Sean who told us about the history of the orphanage and then what we would have to do today. Getting started we were split into two groups and sent off to work moving bricks or to teach in the school. Teaching the kids in the school was amazing and so much fun we taught the little kids the alphabet, to count to ten and how to do the hokey poky. It was a tiring day ... read more

A group of students and teachers from Gleneagles Secondary College will be embarking on a crazy adventure through South East Asia! We will be partaking in many cultural experiences, including visiting ancient temples, watching traditional dance performances and partaking in some culinary treats like deep fried tarantulas! After a few days of acclimatization, we will be heading out to a local orphanage for 5 days to work with the local community on a project site. Along with the manual labour, we will get to interact with the children and help them to work on their English skills. This will be a confronting and eye-opening experience for our students, but I think they will come away with a new found appreciation for our life here in Australia and their role as a global citizen. Before heading to ... read more