Group 4 reflection on Day 1

hi all , we touched down in siem reap at around 0700... We didn't really expect the weather to be so cold >~< The air stewardess said it was 19 degrees outside. SO COLD! We entered the immigrations area and queued for a really really long time to reach to the immigrations person( We were all like " OMGsh... So scary DX), the dude speaked in Cambodia's main language, Khmer, i (Nigel) didn't really understand what he was saying... After that we entered the bus and we were on our way to the breakfast area, WE WERE SO HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had Nasi Lemak With tea which tasted like Coloured Sugared water...

After breakfast, we went in a bus tour around Siem Reap City and a tour guide was explaining the historical landmarks in Siem Reap and its history! There were many hotels in Siem Reap City! Most of them are new built hotels and they were amazingly big and beautiful! :D There are very less cars but alot of bicycles and motorcycles could be seen on the road! (: Public transport such as buses, taxis and MRTs are not present in Siem Reap.. :/ People travel by feet or by bike. I ( WenXuan) also saw many kampong houses which were bulit on stilts! :D Thats COOL~ ^^ There were MANY crops all around! (: We saw water buffalos and cows on the fields~ *MOO~* Many of the houses are run down too! There are also many hungry and homeless stray dogs wandering around on the streets :( SAD!! :/

After that, we went to the Silk Worm Farm. This was my(Liyana) first time seeing this. To me, it is a disguisting process. Now, after seeing how they made this silk, i know that it is a hard job for these women as the process and procedure needs a lot of patience and time. The worms were wriggling in the basket filled with leaves which made me feel really disgusted. But,although they have to go through all these procedure,the ending result was marvellous,joyful and meaningful ((:

After vsiting to the silk worm farm, we went to the Krobei Primary School... The road was irritatingly bumpy, but we some how enjoyed it =.=" When I(Hui Yu) saw the school, i expected the school to be runned down, but it turned out to be really nice. We entered one of the school's classroom which was about half of our school's classroom, PLUS+!!!!!!!!!!!! IT HAS NO LIGHTS AND FANS! T.T We ate a packet lunch at the class room, than we were assigned the task to paint the walls outside the classroom, IT WAS BLUE! There were many spiders there, its egg was even more disgusting... It was like a small ball with spiky stuffs outside, like a puffer fish... YUCK! It was really tiring the whole day, but it was well the effort, and I had appreciated how well conditioned our school's classroom in singapore is so CLEAN and GREEN.

Group 4 members: JunKit, Nigel, Liyana, HuiYu, Janaki,WenXuan

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Cambodia trip 2010! 31 october