This trip proved to be a huge learning experience right before even it began. There were doubts on this trip just a month before and all the happenings leading up to the day of departure was a great learning experience. Whether it was a wise choice to continue with the trip and would it be better if it had been cancelled was the question in everyones mind. We were under pressure to meet up to our own expectations and tried hard to prove ourselves wrong. All the time, I thought that this trip was fixed based on a moment of eagerness not knowing what was ahead for everyone and perhaps it was better to have it called off for all the headaches it has caused. However, i realised that it was these headaches that gave the trip one of its most valuable learning points picked up. Making up what should have been done in during the past few months in a weeks time, preparing for the trip (logistics itinerary etc) itself and rushing for proposals was just the few of them.
The trip itself packed a whole lot other "thrills". Here and there was afew backpacking experiences of been cheated, negotiation with people and 'pokemon' experiences. The service aspect of the trip came and go during the trip. We did it when we saw the need to and overlooked other opportunities many times. But overall, the trip was more of a exploring and fun trip rather than service and doing the syllabus thing. At many times i was in a state of fun and enjoyment, which maybe is a better mindset to be in. Otherwise, a more serious tone often sets the trip into hibernation. Whatever was said to be done prior to the trip was met to the minimal and that required some form of probing too. That aside, there was some standard of auto in us with respect to getting around and organising what was to be done as a group.
Towards the end, it was good that the trip carried on instead of being cancelled. Nothing from this trip can be picked up elsewhere and certainly is unique only to this group of people and this tirp.
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