driving all the time, but do teens really know what it is? and much more, next on teen kids news. welcome to teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m jessica. here s our top story for this week. the idea of losing almost a year of school because of an illness sounds awful. but felipe has the story of a girl who turned a bad situation into something wonderful. reporter: many of us spend our sick days home from school eating ice cream and watching television. but one student used her sick days off to do a whole lot more. rachel missed most of her junior year in high school. instead, she spent it at home, battling a severe stomach disorder. it was no fun. i lost touch with all of my friends. they were busy with their junior year doing homework, when i was in the hospital having tests done. reporter: but one day, while reading the newspaper, she came across an article that caught her interest. she discovered that many children in a rural part of the country cambod
welcome to teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m jessica. here s our top story for this week. the idea of losing almost a year of school because of an illness sounds awful. but felipe has the story of a girl who turned a bad situation into something wonderful. reporter: many of us spend our sick days home from school eating ice cream and watching television. but one student used her sick days off to do a whole lot more. rachel missed most of her junior year in high school. instead, she spent it at home, battling a severe stomach disorder. it was no fun. i lost touch with all of my friends. they were busy with their junior year doing homework, when i was in the hospital having tests done. reporter: but one day, while reading the newspaper, she came across an article that caught her interest. she discovered that many children in a rural part of the country cambodia never get the chance to go to school at all. by not going to school myself, i realized how much i