This trip has been an enriching experience for me where I learnt and developed understanding and awareness of the larger community and the world, apart from the little red dot that I stayed. Though this was not my first time out of Singapore, it however was my first time to a developing country where culture, systems and ways of life differs very much from what is experienced here in Singapore. This experience in Cambodia has broadened my perspective and helps developed an appreciation of what I have in life; especially so after seeing how the kids struggle in school without basic infrastructure. For our generation, many things come by easily without having us to fight for it. I have come to realise that this is so not because the things are invaluable or cheap, but simply because someone else work hard for it. The simple joys the villager kids find in the ordinaries have also led me to seek similar ones in my own everyday life – relationship, especially close ones with family members. Many of the things the school, the kids, the construction crews, this mission OPIC taught are intangibles. The service we offered to them on the other hand is tangibles in terms of direct assistance and donations. Yet, I am compelled to feel that we have learnt more from them than them from us. I remembered how I hopped on to this trip with much enthusiasm and ideals at the beginning, hoping to make a difference in people’s life. But along the way, I came to realise that the change we could made is very minimal, for how much a change to standard of living or society can we made within days of teaching in just a school, considering the short term and nature of this trip. Change does not occur overnight and it takes generations to make things change. Ultimately, it’s the Cambodian themselves who would call for the change. Nonetheless, I still feel that our trip has empowered some of them to reach out for more in life, perhaps contributing to the change in society.