Daily Report for Sunday, April 8th (Group A)

Many of my English II students have decided to join us on this trip to Cambodia, even though they are missing 3 days of classes and a 2-3 page essay on Autism. In exchange for skipping that assignment, I decided to offer my students write daily blog reports on what kind of things we were doing in Cambodia. Today, we split up, with groups heading in 2 directions: to an Adventist academy (similar to TAPA and TAAS) called Cambodia Adventist School (CAS), and a Vietnamese Illegal Aliens school. One of my students, Kotomi, decided to focus her article on her experience at CAS.

We went to CAS which is Adventist School like TAPA today. Comparing with other schools and orphanage we went in this trip, they know a lot of songs and activities and can speak English well. However, there is a similarity which is that they are always into one thing. They work really hard and have fun with their whole bodies and true hearts even if they know the games and songs. I think it is amazing because I cannot have fun and work on one stuff so hard what I know for so long. I feel bored soon and sleep or do other stuffs I need in school days. Therefore, I was amazed at their altitude and pure hearts. I think God wants me to learn to work hard and have fun more because it is my responsibility for people who prepared the activities for me

I learned that they like songs so much, especially, I'll do my best and Superhero. They all sang out loud and did motion with us. Also they sang the songs after chapel by their own!! When I heard they are singing, I felt really happy. I also knew they can memorize things really fast because they work hard on them. I think they are so much better than me in many ways so I learned from them, not teaching them. I'm a little bit worried if I could teach, not only learning.

I really appreciate this trip. Every single work/program tells me important thing for my life. Therefore, thank you, teachers and Cambodian students/kids for teaching me a lot of things and giving chance and time to think about God.