The Cambodia trip was absolutely awesome! I had a

great time with my friends, we get to know each other

more! We had so much fun with each other. My fa-

vourite time of all is when we live in the small camp.

We were given a tent between 3 people! Cambodia was

so hot and quite barren. On the first few days, we had

to dug to build the basketball court for the local school

for the whole morning under the hot sun. We were ex-

hausted! We also played lots of games with the stu-

dents in the local school such as: volleyball, football,

throwing ball games, and the games that we have to run

around. After that we had to walk the whole way back

to our tent and rest. At night we had a little competi-

tion between groups, we dancing, acting and mostly we

had fun!! I loved those days that we stayed at camp!

I also loved the days that we visiting Angkor Watt.

I learnt a lot from there, especially their history！

Overall I loved this trip, loved the time we all had

fun and we learnt lots more new things!!

Cambodia trip! I would say it was a great trip ever! I

had so much fun, with all my friend, stay with them for a

week. The very good time that I will never forget was

the 5 days in camp. It was hard, tired, but FUN! We

had 3 days of working, hot sun made us feel terrible, but

apart from that, all the time we had together was so much

fun. After a tired day of working, we rested by having

fun. On the first night, we had three groups to perform a

special talent: dancing, singing and laughing. Those things

made my tiredness fade away. For the first two days, we

worked very hard, so that, after that two tired days, we

had some fun with children in the local school. There was

different games for students to participate. There are

football, volleyball, and also a game that made from a

very big group of people which we could run around!

That day was really amazing. And the last day of camp,

the different feeling came top me. I felt like I don't

want to leave this place. There was something pulled me

back. There was so many memories and fun and laughs I

had. All of them, all of them came back to me at that

time, the time that I know I will never for get this

[ Tired but fun]

[Boys playing volleyball]

[This is the big game!]

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Fun at Angkor Watt-Angkor Tom-Ta Phrom

Yesterday was a cold and freezing night. Everybody woke up

and must have carried a

blanket at least. After

15 minutes, we trav-

elled for 15 minutes to

travel to Angkor Watt.

First step we visit to

the entrance gate to

take photo to applied

to the ticket.

After that we meet our

tourist guide in the

Angkor Watt, he is very nice and he guided us to Ta Phrom

and he introduced us the place and the most attractive things

are trees and broken pillar of the empire.

Next we travelled to Angkor Watt and is a massive place and

very gorgeous place to visit. The tourist guide explained to us

a lot of things about Angkor Watt.

We also visited the famous Angkor Tom, but it is not as big

as the Angkor Watt.

Then we headed to the lunch section and then headed to the

shop to buy some souvenirs. Later we head back to the camp!

Last few months, we were in the

SIEM REAP province in the

UNESCO Heritage Temple, but

when we’re bored, there

is…………..

I might sing for around 20-30 songs but everybody

enjoyed it! Those are the best moments through-

out the trip!

First of all, we went to stay in Camp Bengmealea for 4 nights, where it

was UNCOMFORTABLE AT ALL!!! Mosquito bites everywhere in my

body!!

We only spent 2 nights in a hotel in Phnom Penh, then we went back to

our school, we spent around 1 week in Cambodia.

iCambodia Six hours to Phnom Penh—we were all energetic and hyper the moment we first got on the bus. And with the help of the early morning packs of Doritos, our stomachs were even fuller than ever. Our recreational electronic items were all snatched out of our bags and were immediately consumed by our fiddly fingers. Across the aisle were the sounds of slicing fruits, shooting pea shooters and groaning zombies, the latest Korean hit songs and, of course the devour-ing of early morning snacks. Two hours later—We were all frantically lowering the brightness of our screens and turn-ing off the Wi-Fi to prevent our batteries running out before we get to the hotel. But even-tually, our iPods, iPhones, and unknown MP3 players were all completely running out of battery, and the games played on the tiny screens soon became tedious. It was then that we looked over our seats to find Van uncovering the shiny, magnificent, revolutionary and heavenly *whispering* iPad. Chaos swept across the banks of seats as everyone tried to get their hands on the glowing screen. Behind us we can hear the screaming and begging of the famish Year 9s to touch it for only a split second. In the following days the iPad eventually became the center of our attention. Everyday, after a tiring session of digging at the local primary school, we’d all dive into Van’s tent to finish another game of Tap Tap Revenge or Plants vs. Zombies. As the generators were turned on at 8, the iPad immediately received a VIP plug-in space at one of the only three power outlets. After the generator shut down again for the night, the iPad was strictly off-limit to anyone but Van, as every droplets of battery were valuable in this electricity-lacking environment. The iPad was a real savior for us and it was something that kept us going on through the days under the scorching Cambodian sun.

Abnormal Day By: Yaechan & Seungdoo

When we went to Cambodia, It was really hot. We went to

sleep without blankets and some of boys, without clothes. But

we ended up coming out of the tent with blanket around our

body and shivering. It was really abnormal that usually we

wake up at the morning sweaty but this day we were

shivering.

After spending days in the

camp in Beng Mealgo,

helping the local school to

build basketball courts

and incinerator. We finally

went back into the city Ku-

la Lumpur by bus for

about 5 hours.

We visited the Royal Pal-

ace, the royal residence of

the king of Cambodia..

But where the king lives

is closed to public so we

visited Silver Pagoda

compound and the cen-

tral compound contain-

ing the Throne Hall and

Chan Chhaya Pavilion.

Member of Cambidge University

The Second Last

Day in Cambodia Later, we went to the Na-tional Museum of Cam-bodia where all the his-torical artworks are pre-sented.

On Wednesday 16th

of March was a nice

sunny day. We

planned to went to

local school named

Kumamoto lions club

school which was

near the camp at

3:00pm. We walked

for a while and then

at last we arrived at

there. The school

looked quite great

and it had a big

house where the stu-

dents could study.

When we went in

everyone were play-

ing in the huge play-

ground. Soon we went

to played with them.

During that time, we

were all had fun and got

closer with them. It was

a very nice day.

Visiting Kumamoto lions club Visiting Kumamoto lions club

school!school!

Written by Eun Jee, Kelly, Giai Du 9LV

Trip To Cambodia

It was fun to go to Cambodia with

my friends and teachers

CJ sing behind this

temple a few time ago

Cambodia football team

(p.s. look careful one person

look like Cambodia guy )

First day we go to tent is very hot, but after first

day is cool, and we already come back to VN , we

meet the Mr. Tome when we come back to Q.7 we

go to KFC and eat chips (that day is rain).

Jong Won

Cambodia Camp

By Joshua Y9LV

Y9 went to Cambodia for school trip. It was very hot

weather for labor. It was very tired. We dig oot and

cut grass. It was really hard work because it was so

hot. We had a rest . If we do not have water we could

not work. Our skin became black.

Y9 students farmed for a

first time it was very hot

and extremely tired

Ms.Laura went to camp

Beng mealea and she

took our water bottle

and filled up for us so

we called her “ water

lady” we divided by 3

team. our teams leader

was ms Laura. Mr. Ad-

am, and Mr.. James it

was hard time doing that

but a little bit we had

fun too.

We made basketball court for Kumamoto lion school they watched us farming because we were stranger. They played with the lizard and we was really sur-prise because that was really cool girls was scared and we can’t get closer together.

When we finish making basketball court we went to our camp and ready for shower. It was really difficult shower so however we were so sticky and sweaty we need to shower! When we finished shower we ate Our Lunch it was delicious

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students help farming

At the very first day we came to Cambodia, after 8 hours travelling

on the bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh. Just right after arrive and stay at the hotel for only 20 minutes just to put all our luggage down.

“Come on everyone, we have to go to the museum fast because we have no time left” Ms. Laura said. At first I thought: Oh, a museum..cool.. And

when I ACTUALLY went there, it is not as cool as I thought. My first experience of the horror was the

torture room, it was terrible. There was blood on the ceiling. The room was small, and there was a

window, also small but there was still light went through it. On the wall, a picture was hanged on

the wall, describing how the torture happened. I felt sad for them.

After that, we went to the picture room. It was full of images of the prisoner who had been

executed right here. Their faces looked miserable

and worried. Some looked at the camera with anger, pain and hatred.

The original of Tuol Sleng Museum is actually a high school is located in an ordinary side road of Phnom Penh. Inside

the gates of the „school‟, it just look like any other normal high school with three buildings

face a grass courtyard with pull-up bars and bowling greens. Any one know how can the

Khmer took over the place that used to be a high school. The site is a former high school

which was used as the notorious Security Prison

21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge com-munist regime from its rise to power in

1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng in

Khmer language means „Hills of the Poisonous trees‟. Most prisoners at S-

21 were held there for two to three months. However, several high-ranking

Khmer Rouge cadres were held longer. Within two or three days after they were brought to S-21, all prisoners

were taken for interrogation.

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

In March 2011, we left to

Cambodia. It took 6

hours. We were tired be-

cause of long travel, but

when we arrived at Cam-

bodia we were so excited.

At first, we went a hotel and

unpacked. We spent our first day in hotel and

we moved to tent next day. The tent was not

comfortable as a hotel,

but it was funny to stay.

We went many places.

We went Ankor Watt. It

was a temple and it was

huge. We had to wear

long pants so we had to

change pants. We

worked for making basket ball field. Also, we

went a Cambodia school and played with the

students.

It was a good trip to me.

A great experience

Fun at the school

I enjoyed playing with kids in

school. We played game and I

think everyone can enjoy from

this game. The game looks like

the photo. And if runner touch

or hit your hand, you have to

learn with the person next to

you. And if many people play this game, you have to run

more.

First, it started with very small circle and then

every one joined, so the circle got bigger.

Beside the circle game, boys played

foot ball and volley ball and other

girls played Bullying game. And then,

girls joined to our circle game.

Stella 9PM

At bus

The trip to Cambodia started with enduring 6 hours of unforgettable time. On Sunday morning 39 stu-dents in year 9 gathered at RISS at 7 AM and our trip started from the „amazing bus‟. Before I got on the bus, I was thinking that it was big-ger than what I imagined. But I shocked when I saw inside the bus. Oh my god! There was a toilet in the backside of the bus! I think the most of us didn‟t go to toilet and waited for 6 hours. After few hours passed, I became bored. So I grubbed the bag to find the something to eat. At same time, a cockroach fell down from the wall. That was terrible .I hope this bus would be last time to see.

Amusing time with Cambodia students Above: bus that we road first time. Below: To much overpopulated tent.

At camp

The Second days in Cambodia. We arrived at camp place by taking 6 to 7Hours . The camping place quite basic. The internal structure like this; small thatched roof house seem to use for cooking and several tent that we going to sleep . After short break to eat lunch ,we unpack our lug-gage and bag and than bring simple thing like wa-ter and hat which were going to be need at long time walking to ancient temple of Cambodia . When we reach entrance of temple ,we could see the seven headed snake called “Naga” I really enjoy short trip to temple .

We, year9 went school trip to Cambodia, and the most impressive thing was having a nice time with Cambodian school students. We had quite many games that volleyball, football and something else I don’t know what its name. I was playing football, our team mem-bers were me, Chang hoon, Won sok, Joshua, Jong won. It was ex-citing and this picture, these 3cambodian boys were the best and most friendly with us.

Ken - 9Lv

Yr 9 students went to Cambodia. They visited the prison, Angkor Wat, and we visited Cambodia school. Joshua, Won suk, Ken, Chang hoon, and I played soccer with Cambodian children. It was very fun. They are good at soccer. We

played soccer during teachers playing volley ball.

Renaissance International School Saigon

Year Nine Cambodian Trip 2010—2011 Angkor and the Khmer civili-

We had the pleasure to go to the Angkor area of the temples from the Khmer civilization. It was told that Angkor was the largest cultural and religious structure in the world. It belonged to the Khmer civilization that had conquered and reigned over the South East Asian parts close to Vietnam and bordering with Northern Malaysia of the current day. The Khmer civilization was deeply religious and had many religious as-pects about their life.

The Khmer Empire believed in the Hinduism and Buddhism. Cambodia has a religious mix of the two religions. The Khmer civilization rose to power in the 9th Century to the late 13th Century when the civilization began to decline. However they did not leave without a legacy. The Khmer Empire has built many temples to honor their gods, in their temples their can be deities of Hin-duism and Buddhism. The temples were mostly made of sandstone and there-fore are in poor condition, although there are many projects of restoration that are currently in action. In Hinduism there are three main deities that the Khmer worshipped. There was Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer. Brahma was the deity that has four faces and four hands; each face was facing in each direction, north, east, south and west to symbolize is all seeing power. Brahma is the one that created the world at first and is one of the gods in the Hindu “Trinity”. Vishnu the Preserver was also one of the main gods of the Hindu religion; his job was to preserve the world. He was symbolized to be a blue deity and had four arms. Vishnu very much enjoys the affairs of the humans and often interferes with them, and when he does, it is said that he would be in the form called an avatar. Shiva the Destroyer is the last Deity of the Trinity. Shiva is the deity that ends the current world and readies a new world to be born. Shiva would perform his dance of destruction when there is the Kali Yuga. These three gods are the three main and the temples often wor-ship one of the three. The very first temple that we went to was the Bengmealea Temple that was about a 20 minute walk from our camp was in a state of ruin. There was a lot statue called the Naga which is usually a nine headed snake or serpent that represented luck. The front gates of the temples are blocked by the wreckage of blocks. We had to enter it’s perime-ters by going one if the side gates. The temple is built is very much to symbolize what the Hindu world ideology is like. There was a moat around the Temple grounds to symbolize the vast ocean surrounding the Hindu existence and there were many Nagas around the Temple both inside and outside. They represented the gods and the evil oppos-ing them as well. The inside of the temples were mostly wooden paths that lead from one collapsed monument to the other. The reason for the collapse was the decline in the civilization there in the 10th Century where all the peo-ple left the temple and nature took over and destroyed the structure slowly. There architecture there was one of the most detailed that I have seen, such detail and precision in carving the reliefs and the walls and yet the Khmer still managed to keep it in symmetry and in the correct proportion all the way around. When we went to the centerpiece of the Temple, it was a mass of blocks that have been collapsed over the years. The guide who was with us

Bengmealea's Main Entrance

told us that this temple worshipped the god Vishnu the Preserver. The trees have invaded all of temple monu-ments and it seems that nature was everywhere. This is the place where true adventurers would want to go if

they wish to experience and see the Khmer culture a millennium back. The Second temple that we visited was the Temple of Ta-Promh. It was also quite a large temple. Ta-Promh is almost twice as large as the one near camp. The structures there were going to be restored by the joint cooperation of Cambodia with India as we know it, so there was a lot of trucks and tools lain out. The trees that took over the compound here are much larger than the ones in Bengmealea. There were more relief crav-ings in this temple than the Bengmealea one. The relief carvings in this temple were telling stories about the gods and their deities. We could see a lot of animals that we did not know; perhaps it was a Garuda, a bird

of the Indian culture. Ta-Promh was also the place where the movie “The Tomb Raider” was filmed and since then has been a big attraction in the Angkor area. There were a lot of dark areas in the Temple where the light didn’t come through and it always makes me wonder how the people of that time navigate through such large complex. The third temple what we visited is the legendary and much spoken about Angkor Wat. This is the largest reli-gious structure in the world and was the seat of power for the Khmer Empire. We entered the area through the back entrance, which was impressive already. The back en-trance looks very symmetrical and proportional. There were spires erecting from sides of Angkor Wat. As we en-tered the through the temple the steps of the stairs kept going steeper and steeper. When we reached the inner complex there were a lot of mass relief carvings which were about a few miles worth in length. There was a lot to see and it was indeed an impressive sight. As we ap-proached the inner center monument of Angkor Wat, the stairs were now so steep to go up and there were con-structed stairs so that the tourists can walk up. The steep stairs symbolizes the difficulty on the road to Nirvana as they would call it in Buddhism which is the equivalent to enlightenment or heaven. Then when we exited the massive complex, we went through the main gate the path was very long. It was about one kilometer I would assume and with the sin in the sky it was torture, although the visit was worth the heat. Finally in the afternoon when all of us were beginning to get tired, we visited the temple of Angkor Thom. Ang-kor Thom I must say has the most base-relief carvings of all the temples that I have visited. The compound is made with 4 entrances to the centerpiece. The centerpiece is surrounded by a wall of an impressive base-relief carving that stretched to every corner of the walls surrounding the center area. The base-reliefs told a lot of about the Khmer civilization including sports, entertainment, gods and great battles that they did against other kingdoms and empires such as the Chinese. As you entered the the center area of the compound, there are a lot of statues of the god Brahma, there were so many faces of Brahma and there were also some statues of the sleeping Buddha as well. One thing that I regret about that visit was that we were too tired to actually appreci-ate the view on of of the center building and we were all shining about how our feet hurts. One thing that I would say that I don’t like about the temples was that the doors were too small and I had a lot of bumps to the top of it and it hurts.

A window or opening in Ta-Promh that I have tak-en over. Poor win-dow.

Angkor Wat's back

entrance. This is the inner gate of Angkor

Wat.