IT was quite inspiring to read about the two girls from Lochgelly High School who had been on the Polar Academy trip to the Arctic this time last year.

That was an amazing thing at the time when the Lochgelly High kids headed for the frozen north and an experience that money could not but.

I remember the story in the paper when they came home and how the youngsters had managed to keep going despite minus 40 degree temperatures.

The way that the trip had worked for the two girls who went to the rotary club was really quite remarkable.

They were both highly impressed with what they came across on their adventure but what caught me was how they felt it had changed their lives.

To feel that their self confidence has increased by many percent says a lot for the organisation which organised the trip.

Both girls have made it clear that this is something that has given them something that will help them at school and when they leave the school and go to the next stage.

That really is quite something and if the other pupils on the Academy feel the same way then it has been some project.

ARCTIC ADMIRER,

Carden Castle Avenue,

Cardenden.