After the Kava we had a look around the handicraft stalls which were great and all of things were made by the villagers and sold to help make money for the school. We bought a small wooden mask but again I would have liked to buy a lot more.

After this we headed down to the school, and meet up with the head teacher, who explained to us how the school operates. We then went over to a small classroom to hear the youngest group of children sing a couple of songs for us. They were so excited to see us and so proud to be singing for us that it was an absolute joy be sat there listening to them. Of course everyone from our group was taking lots of pictures and before we left the room, I showed a couple of them their photo. Well that was it, the next minute I had around 20-30 small children all climbing over each other and me trying to get a look at their picture. It was a wonderful moment and one

I’ll never forget. We then had a tour around the school and visited a few more classrooms with various groups of kids singing and dancing for us, it was just fantastic. If I were a teacher then I would definitely take time out of my travelling to come and volunteer at a place such as this, it would be such a rewarding thing to do. It was Southeast Asia all over again - the people with the least are always the people with the largest smiles and give you the most warm of welcomes. The whole visit was a joy to behold and finally we ended up in the head teachers room where he asked if anybody would mind donating a little bit of money to help with the running of the school. Mind? You must be joking!! Try and stop us!! We didn’t have much cash with us so we borrowed some from Claire and Sarah so we could give a little bit more than we had with us. It had been the best of visits and nobody wanted to leave, we could have stayed there all day, it was great. The head teacher thanked us all and shook each of our