Bridging cultural differences


One for the album: The writer (third from right, front row) posing with several of the students from Xavier College on the day of their departure from Kuching.

LIVING over 5,000 kilometres away, a group comprising five teachers and 30 students between the ages of 15 to 17 from Xavier College in Gawler, Adelaide, Australia were in Malaysia on a one-week visit last month.

One of the highlights of their trip was a visit to my school, St Joseph’s Secondary School in Kuching, Sarawak.

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