The last two days have been nothing but pure excitement and laughter for Year 9. Driven with adrenaline for adventure, 86 students set off at the break of dawn (honestly, the sun wasn't even up yet) to set off for the trip.
Wednesday Blog by Alexine Yap
After having the Amazing Race, we helped in giving out food and hot chocolate to the children in the elementary school. Several of my other fellow year Nines also helped in giving out blankets, toys, slippers, and shoes to the children. I felt content with what he have done in that school. Seeing the warm smiles of the children as they received their gifts with such innocent, unabashed happiness beat the frigid weather and made all of us happy inside.
Many of us had already been to the country's capital city before, yet only a small percentage of us actually visited or appreciated the landmarks of Hanoi. The visit to the Temple of Literature provided us with a brief knowledge of the city's history of education, a fascinating change to the world history we study in class. Although our next destination to the infamous Hoa Lo prison set a gloomy and slightly eerie atmosphere over us students (and put a slight damper on my happy-go-lucky mood), the experience had definitely opened our eyes for the intricate past of the hardest times of this nation.
Thursday Blog by Haeon Yoon
Yesterday was our last day in Sapa. As disappointed as we were of leaving the scenery of the mountains; we had a longer day ahead of us. We started with the team building games; despite the fact that we had to cooperate it consisted mostly of shouting at each other to move faster, to put our heads down and occasional congratulations. I personally found the activity where we had to crawl underneath a net of strings the best out of the three games we took part in. As difficult as it was to turn into a centipede and crawl, we came into the point where we realised the statement: Slow and steady wins the race was indeed true. The prize of the best human worm was crowned to Joowon as she literally turned into a worm and crawled her way through the net. Although the pink team flourished themselves with a prize, we chose to remain cool since we won the amazing race that took place in the previous day.
After lunch, our 10km trek down the road commenced, inspite of the fact that the weight of our bodies all focused on our toes for a long time, we got to take a break from the buses (the travel sickness) and enjoy the scenery of the beautiful Sapa. The highlight was the moment where I accidentally got my shoe stuck and lost in the mud. As disgusting and horrible it was to get my sock and foot soaked in the mud, because of this, the river felt like heaven.
When it finally came to the point where we had to get on the trains, I prepared myself for a bunch of stories and gossips in the cabin!
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