An Amazing Start To My December

I have to say I had an amazing start to the last month, December, of this year, 2017. The other 14 seniors and I have trained very hard to prepare for the 22nd Angkor Wat Half Marathon running race. We trained at least twice a week, one’s at six o’clock in the morning and the other one in the evening; if we have time, we could do another run on the weekend as well. Because we designate so much effort into training, we also had the option to do the 37-kilometer biking with the second cohort.

On Friday the first of December, 25 LLA students, 10 of which are from the second cohort, drove to Siem Reap for the race. We arrived JPA, a very generous academy that allows us to stay over (thanks a lot!), settled ourselves down and relaxed for the biking race the following day. Saturday came, we woke up at 3:30 am! Once everyone was ready, we left JPA and headed straight for the race. The ride took awhile. The race itself actually start at 6 am; we were there early to get our bikes and make sure everything works properly. I took the bike race as a relaxing one, I didn’t go very fast. As the sun rises, I could see the beautiful Cambodia, the rice fields that expand to the horizon, the temples that were built by the Khmer Empire, and the forest that covered the leftover. My friends and I made couple stops to take some pictures. We spent our afternoon in JPA playing card games, soccer, and many more fun games. We slept early to be prepared for the upcoming 10 kilometer-running race; only the first cohort did it though. The next day came, we woke up early and did the same thing again except that we have to pack everything onto the bus because we won’t be coming back to JPA. There were so many people in the race! It took me about 2 minutes after the race started to cross the starting line; some students took longer than that. It was so crowded that the whole 10 kilometers were filled with human being! This made the race much easier for me because every steps I took, I am getting ahead of someone and if I was to stop, I will fall behind; this made me push hard. I gave the race my best. As a result, I broke my own record by about five minutes! That is enough for me to cover around a kilometer! My current time is 53 minutes. After the race, we had breakfast and some time to cool down. We didn’t wait long before returning to Liger.

I had an amazing weekend. I am also looking forward to doing the half marathon next year 😉

Sudoku ASE

One of my After School Extension (ASE) is Sudoku. In there, students would get a printed sudoku grid from the facilitator and try to solve it. Depending on the students’ ability and experience, they might pick a different difficulty. There are four options of difficulty including easy, medium, hard, and diabolic. I always go for the hard sudoku but sometimes I go for the diabolic sudoku. To me, sudoku is a strategy game that requires a lot of patience.

A hard sudoku solved by me.
A diabolic one!