Chocolates! - Day 4

Day 4 – St. Leonard’s College
by Md Haizel

What’s up people?

We do apologize for the late post for Day 3. The new hotel we have moved into doesn’t have wireless Internet connection, and the broadband connection they have in the hotel isn’t very good.

We’ll also post the pictures a lot later, we still have problems attaching our photos to our blog. I think that’s how it is for all of us.

On a brighter note, this is Group Chocolates and this is the blog for Day 4!:)

First of all, we have moved to a new hotel! We moved to the “Grand Mercure” hotel Monday night. The room was much better than the previous one and some of us had a bigger room (well, I think that’s just my room, the rest have smaller rooms I think). In fact, I also think the teachers’ rooms looks very cramped – just like a store room!The hotel had a laundry room as well (How awesome is that! $1 dollar, and our clothes are clean again). We got up earlier this time as we did not want to be late for school. When we arrived, we went to the “Common Room” and waited for Ms. B (a teacher of St. Leonard’s College) to break us up into the different classes. These classes included English and History, as well as Economics and Desktop Publishing (They were amazing subjects).

We got to learn a lot of different things while we were there as well. What was pretty awesome about the school was that everyone got to use laptops and lucky for us, we got to do some work on them. We had a short break at eleven and after that and continued with different classes. We then had Art, Business and Permaculture. Permaculture pertains to gardening and rearing of animals. It was pretty cool to know that the school had a farm! Most of the group members had a chance to get to see the beautiful farm. The farm had some animals like the alpaca, which helped protect the sheep and cows from the foxes. It was really cool that the school had a farm as part of its compound.

In fact, some of the students who went for the Art class got to learn and try silkscreen printing. The artwork of our students was awesome, and Mr Ratish has the pictures. In fact, their school is very well utilized as an art gallery too. Paintings, prints, wearable art, installation art….it’s all over the school!:) Well, that’s it for today. Tomorrow is the last day at St. Leonard’s, though I wish we could stay a little longer.

Until tomorrow…goodbye..:)