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lessons learnt in sri lanka
i am thankful for being given an opportunity to go on this overseas expedition. i've learnt lessons that i wouldn't have learnt in singapore.

i've learnt from this experience:
  1. to move out of my comfort zone
  2. to appreciate my mother more =)
  3. to appreciate family members
  4. to look at the positive side of things all the time
  5. that it reinforces the fact that material goods do not satisfy desires for happiness
  6. not to impose ideas on others, to listen to others' experiences and build on ideas from their opinions.
  7. appreciate that our teachers give us more freedom to express our creativity in our answers..
  8. appreciate the simple life.
  9. depending on oneself (handwashing our clothes, even when there's cow dung on it. there's no one to depend on but yourself.)

i've learnt more than what i've listed above.. it's a long list and.. i'm still wondering.. did we make a difference to their lives, or did they make a difference to ours?

when i left, i realized what i learnt was, we gain more intangible lessons from them than what they gain from us. and i am very grateful to them for that. =D

a seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. - A Welsh proverb


it's 2:24 PM now on Saturday, June 11, 2005



Globetrekker..
Planning next destination:
Ohio, USA; Mexico City, Mexico Been to: Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Japan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Tunisia, Germany, England, India.
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