Nepal 2008

alright just got back yesterday on the 2nd june at 1055pm. Trip overall was amazing for me as i got to know many new friends that went for the trip as well as the Nepali young kids. Keff, Jasie. These 2 little friends were smart and cute haha. Oh well, we started off doing the digging and we finished digging half of the way, and the rest of the groups carried on the rest laying the pipes and it was beack to us to cover up the pipes.
We taught the young students Maths and to our surprise, they were indeed very smart! Primary 5&6 students really know how to do BODMAS (order of operation) and even all those huge numbers things man! amazing kids!
We also painted their school building and it was painted blue for the windows and inside white walls and we did the cememnting of the floor!

Each day ended off with a reflections for us to reflect how much work we have done and how we have impacted the kids and to me, i felt that what i did was benefiting the kids for their future.
CARPEDIUM! i mean seizing the moment. Mrs Lyann posted a question to us whether did we convey a msg out to the kids and whether we had any regrets...to me, being one that paid the trip using my own, i believed that i made full use of what i had, my talents placed in me and used them to bless the kids with new facilities. i managed to get the msg across one kid. here how it went.

Kid: Hey man, why are you doing this?

Me: We are here from Singapore, and we are helping you to build better facilities for you to learn better in a good environment!
You know kid, what we are doing is to help you but the other portion comes from you. You must seize the moment always. ( i told him the word CARPEDIUM)

Kid: seize! seize!

Me: yes you must always do that! do your best and achieve your dreams, Yeah!

It ended off with a handshake and he thank me for what i did for him and i hope he would carry on telling his friends or at least he himself pursue on, achieving his dreams!

the day we left the school was the heartbreaking one. we saw the students just happy to see their new school and also seeing the new water finally available at their school. seeing their smiles was a happy one and i really felt that what we did was really going to stay in our hearts forever! i mean that was all about service learning! SERVANTHOOD! service! learning!

indeed we have brought the kids into our fairfield family and the kids are going to be in my heart and i will remember my conversation with the kid on the last day!

CARPEDIUM friends!







Bertram Brandon