Thailand Leadership Camp 2014

In the second week of the June school holidays, 10 students from years 10 and 11 and 2 staff members from St Ursula's College headed off to Thailand to join 50 other students for a 4 day intense camp experience.  The 60 students were from Sydney, Toowoomba, 4 schools in Indonesia and 2 schools in Thailand.  The common factor for all the schools is that they are Ursuline Schools which follow the vision of St Angela Merici and work under the motto Serviam - I will Serve.

 

The camp was the 2nd leadership camp run by Mater Dei, an Ursuline School in Thailand where the girls were involved in service activities including making check dams, replanting a mangrove forest and working in an orphanage.  On the third day of the camp, all 85 students and staff were involved in the painting of the orphanage fence.  As well as these activities, the girls spent time on reflection, sharing and teasing out what leadership and service really are about.

 

After the camp, all the students who were visiting spent 3 days in Bangkok with the homestay families as the guests of Mater Dei, the Ursuline School.

 

The girls spent long days, made new friendships across cultures, were challenged emotionally as well as physically, came to understand what leadership and service are about and promised to return home to share their experience and to set a small spark of service going either within the College or in the wider community.

 

The camp was a wonderful enriching experience for both staff and students and we were certainly looked after well by the Mater Dei community.