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Comment By Arin Smutharaks 

My favourite part of the residential

I waited along the gorging line to get just one scoop, which was worth it! I used to come to this dairy farm called ‘Dairy Home’ with my family and each time we bought ice-cream it was mouth-watering. When we paid 60 baht for one scoop we also got a souvenir which was a fancy cup perfectly completed by ceramic. I bought 2 ice-creams so got 2 souvenirs. I chose the cup which was in the shape of a Christmas stocking and another one in the shape of a chimney with Santa about to climb in it.
Talking to my friends while waiting for my turn, I lost my mind that it was my turn to pay the cashier and exchange for a slushing scoop of cookies and cream. With a few brain freezing mouthfuls I finished it all! It was indeed mouth-watering. So I went back and got another this time, I decided to take a risk by choosing kiwi and green apple. The most stunning thing was we got 20 baht discount for our second scoop. To my surprise it was absolutely amazing.
The moral of the story is “you better take risks”. 

Comment By Isaure  

My best time of residential
I liked everything but I really enjoyed river pounding.
My best time of residential was pound dipping because my group caught lots of stuff especially shrimps and tadpoles. We also found a rock that when you put like an objects in it swallows it and the object come back from another side of the rock it was awesome. The water was very fresh so when you slipped it was very refreshing after lots of work for searching tadpoles and shrimps. To complete this activity we had lunch and our next activity was river study by measuring the depth.

Comment By Jack Rice 5B 

My favourite activity in resi was the night safari. It was super fun beacase it was cold and we told each other scary stories. I also brought my flashlight to help the lady spot the animals, although I couldn't see any. We saw two deer and some sort of sloth. I don't think we saw alot of deer beacase when we saw our first deer my freind screamed "DEER"!
It was very fun and I really want to do it again.

Comment By hannah 

While we were away on residential one of my favorite things was the talent show. There were many acts at the talent show, but the act I liked best was the girls who were singing “Jar of Hearts”. I also really liked the act where the boy made bird call sounds. The dancing was also really good, the comedy was funny. I really liked the piano because they played Fur Elise and my mum’s name is Elise, so that is why Iliked it so much. I thought it was funny the way the judges used bananas to score the acts. Also it was funny the way Miss Clair played the mean judge. The night ended with a bonfire where we all drank hot chocolate and miss Rachel taught us some songs we were all really tired when we went to bed I think we all had a really good time.

Comment By Nimit 5B 

My favorite part of the trip was when we played football at the last evening we were there because we owned the other team likes so badly and the score was 4-9. I liked it when we went to the pond and caught some fish and shrimps, my groups first activity was the river study and that was my favorite because at the end we got to play and sit in the river, the second activity was the collage and I liked it but it wasn’t one of my favorite and the last activity was the river dipping when we catch fish and shrimps and this activity was my favorite. I also liked the part when we got to eat ice cream after the tree planting foundation because I forgot to buy some more things for my family so we got some free ice cream cups.

Comment By Divyansh Jain 

My residential trip to Khao Yai was full of fun but the part I loved most was the talent show. It was really fun to see the talent of others. The first performance was the haka dance. It was performed by all 5O boys. I was watching the haka dance for the first time so I didn’t understand it completely. I also participated in the talent show. I did some magic tricks. I got 8 and a half points in total but I didn’t win. The people who won were Dimitri and Charlie. They did some comedy and scored 10 points. They indeed were very funny. The last performance was GANGNAM style and 5C boys participated in it. All the participants of the talent show got a prize and incase anyone already had one they had to give it to someone else. I already had two prizes, one from the quiz night,so I gave mine to Prom. It was time to sleep so we all went to our rooms, got changed, brushed our tooth and went to bed.

At My favorite part of residential was the river study. I like it because it was really fun catching tad poles and we caught about 90 or more tad poles. Secondly we did the natural collage, I made a house, little plants and the sun. For the sun I used a big leaf and for the plants and the house I only used twigs. Lastly we measured the depth the river. Everyone keeps on slipping. While we were waiting for the other groups we got to walk over the rapids and me and Marty found a small crab. We did some river dipping with the other groups and then went to see the waterfall. The waterfall was beautiful.

Comment By Fai 

My favorite memory

One afternoon Mr. Ben took 7 of us to the river to go pond dipping. This was my first time ever going pond dipping. It's called pond dipping because you actually dip a net in the pond trying to catch creatures. I walked into the water that wasn't so cold and wore my shoes even though the bottom was soft. We used nets to catch shrimps ,tadpoles and fish.I was able to catch some tadpoles and small brown fish in my net .Mint caught a shrimp .Aiko tried to catch some fish but the river caught her instead .We had a lot of fun and got a little wet .We said goodby to all the creature and thanked them for the fun.

Comment By Yoran 

Residential was really fun I liked all the Activities in resi but my favourite activitie was the night safari. we started of by putting on warm clothes. Then we went on some trucks to khoa yai national park. Every time we went higher it got colder. We were really exited when we saw a pack of deer. After that we saw a civet. My group were whispering alot because we had to be quite. suddenly we saw a really really qute animal it was in the trees and it was very small. we saw a lot of deer in the whole night safari. This was really Fun

Comment By Artur  

My Resi Reflection

My favourite part about resi was the night safari. I realy liked it because we saw a lot of DEER. We didnt realy see any other animals axept them but it was still fun because I chated with lot of people including Mrs Jo. We traweled there in a bungalos every class had its own bungalo.
Then we splited into a few groups I was in Mrs Jo so as my BFF Yoran. We where not realy chating because I was sitting on the edge of the car while he was sitting in the middle. So I had to be looking out for animals which I hope will not be DEER.

Comment By Premika Ilyas 

My best time of residential is when
we went to the river by mini bus and my group mates were Mimi, James, Isaure, Artur, Yoran, Arin and me. When we are there, we listened to Mr Ben and went to our groups and Miss Jo led us to the river where we can catch some fish , shrimp and tadpole. I caught a lot of tadpoles but didn’t even catch a shrimp. There were a lot of shrimps under a rock that were so difficult to catch. I saw a lot of butterflies, they were so colourful. It was enjoyable because I’ve got to know my friends well and it’s my first time also.

My Favorite part of Resi

My favorite part of residential was the talent show. There were 12 or 13 contestants I loved it! I had 2 favorite acts they were dimitri and charlie with their comedy and the 5C or 50 boys with gangnam style. The judges were quite funny. There was Miss Brinkworth, Miss Caswell and my least favorite was lady Nana (Miss Claire.) I like everyone who entered the talent show. I've never been brave enough to stand up in front of half the year and show my talent. The talent show was amazing, i just can't believe its my last one!

Comment By Aiko 

I enjoyed everything but the best one for me was the river day, my best time there was pond dipping. My friends and I caught many tadpoles and small fishes but not much shrimps. We saw a huge rock and close to it there were so many fishes but I couldn’t catch them because they are too fast! After I went to another place with my friend to find fishes, we found a lot! I chased the fishes around and around then finally I slipped!! My pants were really wet but I loved it, the water was very cold and refreshing. I also liked the measuring the depth of the river Mint, Fai and I worked together Mint and I went in to measure the water, I almost slipped but Mint helped me so I didn’t. The river day was the best I really wanted to go again. See u soon Khao Yai!

Comment By firas 5B 

My Best activity at Khao Yai was the talent show and the river day.
The talent show was really fun because we had lots of great acts. My favourite acts were comedy, gangnam style and magic. It was really funny because all the judges were holding up BANANAS to show the score. Miss Claire was the funniest judge because she acted really mean and nasty in front of the outstanding audience. And I also liked the river day because we did pond dipping, river depth, and the printing thing. It was really fun measuring the river depth because we got to look at different animals. The pond dipping was also very fun because we got to catch loads of river animals

Comment By Mimii 

My favorite part of residential was games night. Not just because it was fun but also because our team won! My favorite games were the one that we had to put the coin in the cup and the one that we had to throw the ball in the bucket. I think the hardest one that we played was the one that we had to untangle ourselves because it was a really tricky challenge. But the one that freaked me out the most was freak or unique, at first I didn't know what to show but after a while, I light bulb popped in my head! I turned my whole entire eye white! After the super fun games night I was sad that it was going to end although I was very tired. So I went to bed, dreaming what residential would be like next year.

Comment By Mint 

My favorite part of residential was the pond dipping. The pond dipping was really fun. My friends and me worked together to catch fish, tadpoles and shrimps. When I was trying to catch a fish I nearly slipped. Aiko and me saw a brownish greyish fish. We couldn’t really see it because it was camouflaging on top of the sand. We tried to catch it but we didn’t succeed. Time was up. In the end, I caught one shrimp some fish and a lot of tadpoles. My friends also caught lots of fish and tadpoles. I had a really good time in the river and I hope we could come here again.

Going to the river was my favourite part. My group first went looking for leaves and sticks. We put them on them on paper, a special type of paper. We left it in the sun for five minutes. Then it created white marks on the paper. Then we went pond dipping we caught shrimps and fish. Finally we went to measure the river depth. The end.

Comment By Marty 

My highlight of resi

My highlight of resi was the trekking. It was so much fun! I was at the back with Miss Jo taking thousands of pictures, and it was so cool. I saw a floating spider web, Elephant poo, a very hollow tree, and a giant bird’s nest. There was one tree with thick Burgess Roots, so thick that we climbed all around it. I also really enjoyed the Night Safari, because we saw so many animals I had never even seen, such as the small Indian Civet, and the fishing cat. But the best bit about the night safari was all the DEER (waves to the deer.)

Marty

My favorite parts of residential are the Forest Trek, River Day. I liked the Forest Trek because it was fun and exciting, we found lots of thing like a lake, salt lick and also the sound of some animals!
I liked the River Day because it was fun and it was also exciting, it was fun falling into the river. The River Dipping was really fun, my favorite part was catching the tadpoles. The Printing was also really cool, I don't know how it works but it was still fun.

I enjoyed going to the Bat Cave because it was really cool watching

My favorite parts of residential are the Forest Trek, River Day. I liked the Forest Trek because it was fun and exciting, we found lots of thing like a lake, salt lick and also the sound of some animals!
I liked the River Day because it was fun and it was also exciting, it was fun falling into the river. The River Dipping was really fun, my favorite part was catching the tadpoles. The Printing was also really cool, I don't know how it works but it was still fun.