EXPOSURE.

(06/11/2011)

The first thing Choo told me when she briefed me for this camp a few days back was;
"OK, first, bring alot alot alot alot alot of dry food."
*jawdropstotheground*
thehell?

Started our journey at around 9.30am with all 10 of us, except for Chiang who couldnt make it last-minute.

holding the 'au naturel' mosquito repelling plant.

Drove all the way there and meet up with Pastor Jack before entering the settlement.
Gees, we were wishing we had a Pajero like him.
I mean cmon, pity Shassi's white Viva Elite. (Was in josh's car, a Sunny!)
It went through much ups and downs (pun intended) after the tar road ended outside the settlement.
As if dirt road was not bad enough, there were massive potholes and what, stone covered roads in the middle of the journey.
Phewwww. Took us an half an hour till we reach the spot to cross the bridge (If you Googled, you'll know how scary it looks.) and half an hour more to reach the middle village.

josh; my boss; was "AAHHH-ing"

There is three village, Kg. Atas, Kg. Tengah, and Kg. Bawah.

We met Bapak, the person in charge there, then the kids.
All the adults are out working.

Things i noticed:

1. Wrappers of snacks strewn around.
2. Only three concrete buildings, the rest were rumah ataps.

3. They bathe, fish, and wash clothes in the waterfall. (oh the story behind the discovery HAHA)

4. The first kid i saw, MIKA, with a sarong wrapped around her head. (And i said, "I wna hug her" the very moment)

Semenyih; Yus and uhh.. :)

From left: rumah atap, church building.

We cooked pasta for lunch. The children had some.

Went to the waterfall and played.
Went back to the church building, played games, taught them origami.
AND we were spent ! pffft.
The girls decided to 'hibernate' in our building for, well, only half an hour.

Woke up, and haha bathed; Orang Asli style!
First time bathing and washing my face with facial wash in the waterfall. LOL :D

The water was freeeeezing cold. I had to beg the kids to stop splashing water at me when i was only half wet. Brrrrrr!
Changed into clean clothes and had dinner.

The ibu-ibus cooked a wonderful dinner meal for us.
Rice, paku ulam vege, fried salted fish, and pumpkin and long bean curry with salted fish head.
Yummmmm.
Had a chit-chat moment over dinner to understand them more; the purpose of Exposure Camp.

frying fish.

cooking pasta.

Yus and Mika.

lower region of the waterfall.

origami session!

Then went for our group discussion.

And apparently we had to leave.
There was this man, reputed to be a trouble-maker, and had conflicts with the villagers.
He said we did not get approval from god-knows-who and yadda yadda yadda.
Andddd he is a bomoh. :)
So we chose to leave, to save the villagers from trouble and future conflicts.
They were so sorry that we had to leave.

It's not your fault :)
And at least we did garner alot from them in just one day.
Well less than a day actually.
We left at 7pm.

the way back at night.

p/s: Mika is the bomoh's grandcousin's daughter LOL

period. :)