Almost over. We’re at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Checked in. Cleared security and waiting on a chai latte at a cafe. Time in KL went well. Lots of shopping yesterday at Central Market and lots of fake bags, watches, tshirts etc at Petaling St Market. In between we visited the spectacular Batu Caves. Today we chilled out at Sunway Lagoon, a big waterpark. Soon be home and the big adventure will be over….
Brian M
Hello to all of Team 1’s friends and family and maybe the malaysian scouts if they get chance to read this
This is our second blog so we have a lot to catch up on!! after working at the sun bears team 1 moved onto working on base camp, we all enjoyed until we realised how hard it is to wash a dixie. Going shopping was fun to and Kyle and Emma took this opportunity to buy important supplies – a.k.a. SUPERMAN TOWELS wooh!! After base camp it was off to the RDC (omg) that was hard work! but we only had to do that for one day before we were off to our home stay. A good time was had by all of team 1, the family’s were all very welcoming and treated us like family (some even looked like family members JILL!!) and we all came back arms full of food and gifts from our foster parents.
We finished our last 2 days at the RDC (or so we thought ) and we finally got our holiday to Poring! This was our idea of heaven internet, pools and good food. We went on the canopy walkway on the second day and this was hard to get to but worth it when you were there and after alot of jumping , photo taken and general banter we climbed back down and headed toward a small waterfall which Emma managed to not fall into.
Before we knew it our time was up and it was back to camp for another stint at the sun bears. This time it was a lot harder we were fixing the chicken wire before the wall slapping in 3 days so it was a mad dash to tighten everything and get the place ready for the wall slapping. The day of the wall slapping came around and team 1 spent the morning at the RDC (nooooooooo !!) and the came home for a nap before we all started a long night of work. It was tough on everyone, but all but a few managed to stay awake and worked the whole night til 4 am when we ran out of cement. We all slept in the hall that night because WE WOULDN’T SURVIVE IN THE TENTS!!! so it was a lazy morning with people sleeping in til 11.00 we started work again at 4pm and were finished the wall 2am with a cheer from everyone unfortunatly it was on that night tha we had to say goodbye to 3 of our new friends Quimi, Rookie and Marwan as they were heading of for a softball and paintball tournament. we were woken up at around 9 which most felt was not a long lie and all could have slept longer.
tbc…
Emma C
On Tuesday night we had our wall concreting party which spread onto Wednesday night also. Late into Tuesday night people where seen sleeping with their hands in buckets of concrete, everyone was exhausted. As it got close to three in the morning panic hit as we were running out of concrete. Heading home at four am, people were pretty tired but happy to be heading home to a long lie-in before the next long night.
Thursday morning, one am and the wall was finished. Everybody went home buzzing 
, the wall was finished and there was only half a day of work was left!!
Hannah
Last Monday we hosted a dinner for the local people who have helped us – from the Sun Bear Conservation Centre, the Rainforest Discovery Centre and, of course, the local Scouts. The Scouts ran a Scottish night with piping, dancing and traditional Scottish food – haggis and stovies. One of our guests, Ian from the BSBCC, addressed the haggis and Cammy gave a short speech. The locals seemed to enjoy themselves and managed to cope with Auld Lang Syne too!
Hi All
At last we are connected again. Despite the wonders of technology we have been subject to the forces of nature – a fire hit the main telecom office in Sandakan last weekend and the whole town has been without internet since then, hence the lack of updates.
We are all safely in Kuala Lumpur now, relaxing after the hard work of the last few weeks. You may have seen the riots on the news – they seem to have been very localised and while we have heard about them, the only evidence of them we have seen is a police helicopter flying around. The Scouts enthusiasm for a comfortable bed is only matched for their desire to shop. I can see us struggling with weight on the way home!
More updates to come in the next day or so
Brian
