WHEN YOU are selected to be a student leader at SIM, you will have the chance to take part in many activities from rowing dragon boats to walking the sky. You develop skills in leadership and teamwork during these events.

Laura Thiri Shwe says she was terrified of swinging ropes and falling from heights but she overcame her fears to walk suspended between sky and earth. It gave her a sense of freedom when she did it.

Edmund Ho Hao Yang from Malaysia rowed his first dragon boat under a burning sun. He rowed and rowed until his muscles couldn’t tahan (endure) any longer when he was hit with the life-changing revelation that “if you wanna go fast, go alone, but if you wanna go far, go as a team”. (As we know, a dragon boat doesn’t go fast or far if there’s only one paddler.)