Packing Day

Today, the team spent the whole day packing all things we'd be bringing over to Siem Reap come Thursday.

Meeting at the office at 9.30am, Grace, Mark, Ange, Alvin and myself headed to the nearby Pek Kio market for a hearty breakfast before heading to Tekka Mall (The Verge) to get stationery, bags to individually wrap the clothes and some materials we'd be using for the activities we had planned for the children.

Then we headed to Bras Basah Complex where we got reams of coloured paper for the children to make paper angels and windmills. We hope looking at them will help cheer them up and give them hope this Christmas season.

Then, Mark, Ange and Jeffrey who joined us, headed to Edwin's to get the paper cut into squares while Grace, Alvin and myself headed to Katong to get colouring books from Uncle Bob. When he heard I was heading to Cambodia, he readily gave stacks of brand new children's books. I was really touched.

We then had a much awaited lunch at the famous Katong Laksa store, then headed back to my home where the actual packing began.

While Ange, Alvin and Jeff busied themselves with the packing of the Project Happy Feet postcards, Grace and myself sorted out the clothes again and packed them into the big duffle bags that Alvin got. We were so glad he came up with the idea of those big bags. They were easy to handle and could fit loads of things in it.

We then packed the books, stationery as well as the T-shirts we had specially printed for the youths who will be meeting us to head to the village.

In total we amassed 4 large duffle bags and 1 large soft case luggage. I estimate the total weight to be about 120kg, which leaves the group of 9 with about 60kg more to check in. We all intend to pack light, so hopefully, we don't have to pay for any excess luggage.

At 7pm, we were done with all the packing, and all proud of ourselves for spending the whole day preparing for the trip. :)