Survivor Challenges at Rabbit Island
I am a student who studied at AZIZA SCHOOL. I would like to tell you about the best action, which was happened bellow.
On September 07,2007, team leaders group of AZIZA SCHOOL and the 9 students who got the number one in leadership class that provided by Mr. Sokchea SAING, and I am one of the student among them. On the other hand, there were three teachers and other four foreigners participated in this trip to Kep city for two days and a half.

After we arrived Kep city, my friends and I knew that this is the place we must to showing our ability of leadership through the six games that managed by Mr. Drew McDowell for each game. These games will choose one of them to be the real leader. We stayed in a guesthouse for one day.

On September 08,2007, I and all my friends carried out those games which called “Survivor Challenge”. we divided into two groups that one group has 5 members led by Mr. Put Set and another was my group which has 4 members led by Mr. Kim Sreang. All games always challenge each other that connected to the external / outside.

The first game is buying food which provided each group use $ 12 per group to buy food without higher or lower than $ 12. The second game is cooking food, which provided each group to cook on the island call “Rabbit Island”. We determine on the beauty of food, taste, and time. The third game is camping which provided each group camp and find the equipments by themselves. The camp must be strong and beautiful that can stay one day. The forth game is read ivy the newspapers which is the talent game that recommend them to remember less or more by the short duration of times. The fifth game is performing the story that good in meaning, take short times, and make the audience attractive. The sixth game is showing the talent. This game needs to pick up one representative in each group to speak.

Through playing these games, it provided me for a special feeling that I cannot say. Moreover, it provided me with a lot of useful things such as.
-To make and manage the clear plan before doing something.
-To use the money in a limited way and share it for others problems.
-To be brave in communication with others people whom we don’t know them.
-To white in-group in order to help each other without lagy in duties and without sharing heavy or unheavy jobs each other.
- To share ideas and experiences each other without thinking the rank of people and know the strength and the weakness of our self.
- To know how the people live and they’re living standard in that area.
- To know the goods and guesthouse prices especially know how to live with foreigners such as: the conditions, foods, and habits.

On the other hand, there are many difficulties for me such as.
-It was very difficult to cook and to find the name of the food to do (our self) without helping from others, and to share the money was very difficult because we need to separate it for foods and at there writhing was very expensive. So, we asked many stores to find the ingredients what we wanted to lovy.
-Camping was very difficult for me because I am a female and never done it. I and my friends need to find the equipments and used our talent to communicate with the people who lived at there in order to borrow some equipment from them even though we never known each other, and we found some woods in the forest which full of sharp thorns, In addition, we borrowed the kitchen from the people to cook. We were afraid their mind because we never known each other before.
-Performing the story was difficult because I never played, did not know how to use our senses, and chose the story, which has the complete meaning and took short time. So, we must be brave in order to perform this story. On the other hand, traveling across the island by boat make my feeling nervous when we arrived at the centre of the sea. Moreover, the boat nearly sank because of the big undulating water, and I wish to arrive on the island soon.

Even though all difficulties that I described above completely difficult, but the more difficulties you are, the more we can decide to kick someone out from the group when we lost the competition. It seems the sentiment could not sideline someone from this games because we had joined the same difficulties, laugh, and work hard together.
So, when we kick someone out, it’s really affected to the sentiment and feeling when we ask, “ Who we get rid of in this game?”
Although I lost in this game, I think it’s really great for me, which I could do the hard working that I never done it before. I would take all of the experiences that I have been learnt to share with people around me especially use it in my future life.

By Khuon Lina, a member of team leader.