Project Malaysia 2009

Our thoughts at the moment:

Fraser: ” where is the air con?”

Luke: “macaque attack, callum’s shaken!”

Callum: “Its greate to have been on holiday before we even started work”

Ross: “God i miss ben and jerries…”

Rachelle:”Where is my pen? .. I want my pen back!” (done in silly voice made by martin)

We have been back from our holiday to Poring hot springs for two days and we are already missing the little luxurys we encountered there (please see Frasers comment). Other than air con the highlights of our trip there were, the drunken malaysian man who seemed to think that the hot springs water would run out.  We LOVED the swimming pool with the awsome  slide which wasn’t really that exciting but we entertained ourselves for a rather long time on it. the bed was the best! we have all fallen in love with JACKIE the orangutan who chose to live in the centre.  The locals where very friendly as they waved to us and followed us round the streets .  Unfortunately we were awoken by a rumble in the jungle on our second night which was a war between the r***d (sensored by Byron) dogs, vicious cats and scrawny chickens with a hell of a voice box fighting it out in the allyway.

Our first job was working on the sun bears sanctuary. We have quenched the thirst of the third world with sweat (says Luke) It was very hot today with litle cloud, despite this we managed to get a lot of work done the trench is finished the support poles are in place and nearly all the concrete foundations have been laid. We have been working in very close proximity to the bears and Luke thinks they are really cute and wants to take one home. They are beautiful creatures but our favourit has to be Suriya the baby as she climbs on the roof and growels lowdly.

The camp site has too many spiders for Rachelle’s liking, and the football pitch that was used yesterday has today been turned into the local swimming pool! The little kittens in the cafe are amazing but the owner asked if we wanted to BBQ them ( which is a little concerning)

Team 5 – Rachell, Fraser, Callum V, Luke & Ross