REDLANDS - For eight University of Redlands Students, the month of May was spent, teaching English and constructing a playground and garden in Cambodia.

"Our goal was to teach children, and to become better people," said Cassie Miles, who graduated from UR in May, with a degree in liberal studies.

The travel course was part of the Community Service Learning Department, and helped students meet the 80- hour community service graduation requirement.

"I had already completed my community service requirement," Miles said. "I went for the experience. I really wanted to feel what it was like to teach without any resources."

Prior to arriving in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where they spent most of their trip, the students and their professor, Lawry Finsen, visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia. During a three-day stay in the city, the students learned of the genocide that took place there in the late 1980s, they said.

"I'd say the thing that had the biggest impact on me was the land mine museums, and a place called `The Killing Field,"' said Sommer Disante, who was a UR junior during the trip. "Being there, seeing the pain the Cambodian people have gone through, put things in perspective- not where the kids (at the school where they volunteered) were coming from, but where their parents had come from, knowing what they value as important."

The group then traveled to Siem Reap, where they stayed for the remainder of their four-week trip. They arrived