WORLD CHALLENGE

An Incredible Experience

Last year 19 Kew High School Students from years 10 and 11 were lucky enough to travel overseas to South India and Sri Lanka with World Challenge.

We spent a month exploring, trekking and immersing ourselves within the diverse culture.

We began our expedition in South India trekking through the Western Ghats, a picturesque mountain range. After a tough five days of hiking, we headed to Sri Lanka.

Over the next 20 days, we explored many facets of Sri Lanka, which included train rides, safaris, food poisoning, temples, white-water rafting, visiting a turtle rehab centre, and relaxing by the beach.

The majority of our time in Sri Lanka was spent at a local school in a rural area surrounded by tea plantations. We spent the week involved in various labour tasks such as mixing concrete, fixing furniture, painting furniture, and repairing the school roof.

The local school children were keen volley ballers. Every afternoon we played a competitive Australia versus Sri Lanka volleyball game. They had never seen such good competition!

A huge accomplishment that the whole World Challenge team achieved was hiking up 5,500 steps at two in the morning to see the sunrise from the top of Adams Peak at 2,243 metre elevation.

The entire trip was such an incredible experience and we would highly recommend anyone and everyone to apply for the coming World Challenge expeditions in the future.

Catherine Riggington

Year 12 Student