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24 hr famine

People around the world living poverty have to experience going to bed with an empty stomach and waking with the slim hope of finding scraps for breakfast to ease their hunger. If 24 hours were this bad, how much more the lives of others? Through this 24 hr famine camp I saw the world and Singapore in a much more different light. How people in third world countries had to live their lives, and the hardships of the migrant workers here in Singapore. We got to experience the desperation people had when digging through trash bins looking for food, the pain of waking up with an empty stomach and the difficulties people living in poverty faced in their everyday lives. I realised how blessed I was to get to fill my stomach everyday even though perhaps the canteen food became a routine and was unappetizing and lacked variation, or even to have an education even though it was stressful and tiring. I saw pictures of children in third world countries and heard stories of people who would be ...

the land down under

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My journal.. 16.11.2014 (day 1) Touch down. I felt a little nauseous from the long flight. My back was aching and I felt sleepy. It was an overnight flight yet I was unable to catch a ride to slumber land, and resorted to reading the Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus series) to try and pass the time. Well, it was budget airlines... After a long wait in line through the arrivals, we walked through the sliding doors into the fresh morning air. At once I felt reinvigorated. The air was cool, and the sun warmed my skin. We took a ride to the apex company where we met our mode of transport for the next 2 weeks - a Hyundai Imax. It was a huge car. Our next destination? The viscount towers on first avenue in Gold Coast. The first thing that caught my eye though was the ocean. A long stretch of sand lined the shoreline, dotted with various apartments like the one we were staying in. It was a nice little apartment (16), on the fifth floor though a little old upon further inspection. St...