Notes

Describe an overseas trip that had taught you important values. Describe how that trip had changed you as a person.

I once went to an overseas trip to China- Qi Du. In the beginning, I did not want to go to the overseas trip as I speculated that it be the same old boring trips where there are ridiculous amount of time spent on the coach bus and some sight seeing at some historical sites. This trip, however, has proved this statement of mine very wrong. It taught me many important values that had stayed with me for the longest time.
Before visiting the schools in China, I always avoided using the squat toilets that we had in Singapore and I could never understand what kind of person would use this kind of toilet. Nonetheless, when i was in china, not only do they not have a single sit toilet, they did not even have a squat toilet. The 'toilets' in the schools was just a ditch for you do your business. Their cubicles were merely short fences that were barely a meter high with a gate to go in and out of the cubicles. I still remember that it was after lunch break where I had to go to the toilet and was stunned when I entered the so called toilet. I had no choice but to use it as I was extremely desperate to use the toilet. After coming back to Singapore, I had no issues with using the squat toilets and I learned how to be grateful to the simplest things that we have.
Another circumstance that have taught me important values, was during the meal time at the schools in China.