{"id":4716,"date":"2010-10-14T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/students-lend-the-monks-a-hand\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:36","slug":"students-lend-the-monks-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/students-lend-the-monks-a-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Students lend the monks a hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 22-strong band of Curtin volunteers will visit Australia’s only monastic town this weekend to help the monks out with a spot of cleaning.<\/p>\n

International student Menglu Wang is leading the group which is taking the roadtrip north of Perth to the heritage-listed town of New Norcia.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be fun,” said Ms Wang, a final-year Bachelor of Science (Actuarial Science) student from Weihai, southeast of China.<\/p>\n

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Students from last year's New Norcia trip take a breather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We’re staying in one of the dorms and have been asked to bring our sleeping bags.”<\/p>\n

2010 is Ms Wang’s second year as a John Curtin Weekend volunteer, after she co-ordinated a volunteer trip to Margaret River last year.<\/p>\n

“Visiting these areas outside of Perth, you get to know more about the (West Australian) culture,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s exciting because (international students) don’t get to stay in Australia long.”<\/p>\n

While in New Norcia this weekend, the John Curtin Weekend<\/em> volunteers <\/em>will spend most of their time cleaning the township’s Ildephonsus College.<\/p>\n

“I hope we get a chance to see the monks praying,” she said.<\/p>\n

About half the team is made up of international students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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