After breakfast, we headed to the beach for a surfing lesson. First was land training and then to the water. Students had a magnificent time attempting to get up on their boards - many did so but the important bit was the continued attempts to do so. Then we hopped…

We started with a cloudy by clear view of the beach we slept on, and were only mildly concerned by the cloven hoof tracks in the sand near our tents. Was it a cow, or pigs, or perhaps it was Goat-Man giving us a warning? Perhaps we'll never know! Breakfast…

We travelled to the Elephant Rescue Transit in the morning. We observed and photographed the rescued baby elephants as they were given milk and food. Once they reach a certain size, they are introduced into the national park. Lots of elephant souvenirs were purchased to commemorate the experience. Afterward we…

Today, we visited the Bai Bi primary school, and we taught a grade four class on the topic of weather in English. Later, we played different sports with them together, and I remembered many of them were really good at playing badminton. During the lunch time, we were supposed to…

We started off the day with a 1 hour car ride back to the village we visited yesterday, in order to complete our bookshelf. After that, we had a lunch at the chief’s house. It was delicious. I appreciate the fact that nothing I’ve eaten today was spicy. by Tristan…

Today was an astonishing day as we got to sleep in and create memories with our last 9 hours in the village. The plan for today was to finish off the bookshelf that we constructed yesterday and turn it from a plain boring bookshelf to a more captivating design that…

We finally reached the service component of the trip today. Leaving the hotel at 7:30 in the morning, we made our way over to the village, situated atop a mountain (fortunately, we didn't have to hike there, or else I'm sure there would've been a lot more complaints). We were…

We started the day early to go to a local school. The school only has six teachers and five grade, from grade one to five. The most memorable thing happened in the morning when we were asked to teach classes in the school. I was assigned to a class at…

In the morning we went to the Xifeng concentration camp and learnt about the history of it. We also learnt about the story of the little radish head. We went to the ShiQiao village after lunch and we learnt about the paper making culture. We also had a chance to…

We woke up with memories of last night's amazing feast that the students prepared still on our minds (couscous, corn, and chef Harley's famous pork chop buns). After a leisurely breakfast, tents were packed and we started the journey to Sai Kung. We had free choice for lunch and filled…