Nicholas on Thursday

Day 8

Well there was this chilli, but that is for future reference! Today the Mount Lawlians started the day with an early rise to go teach the monks English. To our surprise there was one monk, so not much was there to do! Once back at the centre we all seated ourselves for an early breakfast to prepare ourselves for a very full day!

At 9:30 we headed to the orphanage for a visit to our favorite friends! This visit was cut quite short for a select few of us, due to going to "Little Po", a school which is close to the border of Vietnam and Cambodia. Once there we were greeted so beautifully by 250 students and 1 teacher! The teacher, Tim, was ever so appreciative that we were there to take some of the children OFF his hands! We had no problem in doing so because the kids were so appreciative of our help! They were so well mannered and eager to learn which made our job extremely easy! I personally had a group of girls run around and pick me flowers and make a bouquet for me! Over all we had a blast at "Little Po"!

Once finishing up at "Little Po", we raced back to NFO for a wonderful talent show where I declared the best performance was NICS AEROBIC CLASS with much help from Tron, Zac, Crystal and Anjali. Which I'm sure will be put up on the website soon, much to my disgust! Many great performances were completed during the talent quest! And a great shout out to the girls that showed us Khmer dancing, you were amazing! One of the more memorable events was the line dancing many of us did, we estimated we had entrants from Cambodia, Australia, USA, England, Scotland, Ghana - a multi national dance.

After the talent quest we all headed back to the centre to have showers and get ready to go out for one more event for the evening, but this is a bit SPICY for some people to handle! We went to the lakeside restaurant for dinner and put it this way, Zac bit off more than he could handle! He ate a full chilli in one hit, silly right? I would love to say we all felt bad for him but we couldn't help but to laugh!! This topped off a wonderful dinner and a great day!

If I had to pick one great thing about today I honestly couldn't pick between the talent quest or the "Little Po"! They were both incredibly amazing!

Over all, today was so tiring and wonderful, so we are resting our heads and off to sleep now! Keep reading our blog and acknowledge all the wonderful stuff we are doing thanks to our parents and Mount Lawley senior high school, but especially Lynne, Andi and Geoff! Thanks a million girls!

Singing off for all the mount lawlians,

Nicholas!