Malaysia Week!!??!!

Hey guys!! Malaysia Week (MW) is 5 days off school and in the wild with teachers and some students in Middle school. There are 2 kinds of adventures, ocean or jungle. For my first MW I was assigned to a jungle adventure site called Kuala Gandah. There our activities were challenging but also a lot of fun. The place we spent the most time at was the elephant sanctuary. There we did community service buy planting trees. While we were there we observed how the elephants behaved.Here are some of my fantastic memories from the bus ride to the wild jungle. On the bus rides we (my group) usually sang really silly songs and laughed while people added funny verses to songs. The most fascinating thing was how many different kinds of insects there were and their different sounds and sizes. Some made disturbing noises when we slept but their sounds were so unique. Speaking of sleeping, we slept in tents that were big enough for twopeople. The worst part of sleeping in a tent is when it rains for the whole day and your whole tent gets flooded. Especially at night you become helpless and you and your things like sleeping bags get soaked and when you wake up you find out that you can’t wear dry cloth cause you don’t own any. But the best part about the tents were that they were quick dry. Though the worst (not that bad) part was not the wet tents it was the bathroom. The first bathroom was actually the best one because it had two logs set up on either side and a small gap between them the place was covered with a “wild curtain” type thing. There was also a small stream underneath the logs to wash our waste away. But that was only the girls toilet. Who knows what the boys had maybe, they went nature. The most embarrassing moment for me was when all my group mates had grouped together and decided that they were going to throw a leech ( a hideous insect and one of the things I hate/scared of) at me when I wasn’t looking. There plan did not work quite as planned but as I knew something was on me I screamed and ran around in circles screeching, and telling people to get it of me. That is when every body burst out laughing even my groups sponsor. Fortunately they just put a twig on me to terrify me, and I got out of  MW without any leeches. The next not so bad experience of this trip was when we had to do com

munity service by cleaning out the dang( a fancy word for poo) of the elephants at the Elephant Sanctuary. We were each assigned to a different elephant and told to remove their dang and dispose it on a truck. The smell and site were not the worst things but the heaviness of the dang on our shovels. As we were scooping and disposing I accidentally put a bit of the dang on my shovel on my friend. OOHPS!! Accidents happen right?I am sorry I did not mention any good things about my trip but I couldn’t because it will just take me about two years to write about it. And besides everything was incredible.By the way (BTW) I am not going any where for spring break. I'm staying here relaxing at the mall or some thing. BYE

 HERE is SOME other story of my MW ADVENTURE bellow

Malaysia Week!?!

Hey guys!! This year I went on my first Malaysia Week and was assigned a Rain forest cite called Kuala Gandah. This cite is for people who love animals like elephants and want to help out at the Elephant Sanctuary. I really don't like elephants but that is the only animal that has a Sanctuary we (my group and I) can help out at. But I don't want to tell you about the elephants you could just go to the Zoo and see them your selves, so I'm going to tell you a little bit about our night treks on the first and second night we were there. On the first day of our night trek I was completely ready for leeches, mosquitoes or any other insects that might bit. I put my flashlight, insect repellent for bugs and mosquitoes that want to get near me and salt in case I get a leech on me, in my jacket pocket. As we were hiking up a hill on our trail I looked above me and saw millions of stars that were so bright that I thought I could touch them if I raised my hands up. After about ten minutes our hiking leader discovered a heap of metal that belonged to a plane from around the 1955 Malaysian war I think. WALK WALK and more walking later our hike leaders thought they saw a wild boar's fresh foot prints so we set out in a different direction to follow it to through the real forest without a trail to guide us through. As we entered the jungle everyone started to slip on the mud and fall or some of us couldn't jump over logs and would have crawl under them. After a while our hike leaders discovered the boar was long gone and that it's tracks were wet because of how hard it had been raining the past week. Thank goodness right now we can get back to our tents and change out muddy clothes. 

Second Night trek: On the second trek I did not carry except for my water bottle because I knew carrying heavy things would make me slow and tiered. This night it was not dark at all and our hiking leaders took us to a trail with elephant tracks so we can use plaster casts and observe them. After finishing my plaster cast I heard one of my friends say that he saw a cobra, so to confirm I asked one of our guides if he was telling the truth. To my surprise he wasn't and that ends the second day.

BYE

  This is the whole camp and my friends!!!

 

Hey!! Nice to meet you

Hey! My name is Tinbite, but everyone calls me Tina. I'm from Ethiopia and 12 years old. I have been to three international schools and live in Kuala Lumpur (K. L) now. I have lived in two other countries other than K.L, Pakistan and Ethiopia. This is my 5th month in K.L and I love it. The people here are mostly muslims but there are also other religions. Malay is the languge they speak here. Every thing is so big and beautiful. Hear are some pics. that will help you visualize K.L: