its been a week since im back from Siem Reap :)
have been contemplating about writing a post on this trip but there's too much stuff to pen it down. to say the least, its probably the most fulfilling 18days ever. no regrets :D i could have spent the money on the GSS tts ongoing now, on a grad trip, on a netbook or so many other stuff but it won't give me the same returns tt i've gained from this trip.
the people whom i get to know, befriend and miss. the locals who are nice, friendly and strong. the kids so innocent and endearing and selfless :) no wonder the leaders want to go back again and again and again. who wouldn't.
it makes me realise that what we read in textbook can only remain as text. and the thousand-word essays we slogged so hard to churn out each semester are only words we read then regurgitate in order to get that A.
poverty trap. vicious cycle. subsistence farming. infertile land. rural villages. cut and slash. educating the poor. educating the women. education. streetkids. mine victims. etc etc.
development. environment. which is more important?
i remember thinking to myself, 'what am i doing here? the weather is so freaking hot. i could have been sleeping comfortably in my bed, with the air-con blasting, back home' during the first day. crying whenever my mum called. regretting my decision to sign up. haha. but not anymore.
i've been having dreams of that country, that place ever since im back.
we just went to a local senior citizens' corner last friday to spend some time with the old folks and teach them english. its a post trip event which we have to fulfill and the last 'official' reason that we have to get together. but i don't think it will be the last :)
