Turtle Island Up early next morning to go to the airport to meet the Guide, to be taken to Turtle Island (only me, Georgie and Catherine were going due to the extortionate price, so Aman remained at Margaret's). We picked up Georgie and Cathrine en route and headed up an exceedingly dodgy bumpy track in this shabby mini bus to reach the teeny tiny jetty on the edge of a river. (Along with about 20 others). It became clear why the tour had been so pric...

Sandakan We were greeted at the airport by Margaret, who we were staying with. She is Cathrine's, sister in-law's friend. Bit random I know- but she was an absolute legend!! Her house was quite near the airport and she showed us our room and left us to settle in a little bit. Her house was pretty spacious- the biggest I've seen in Sabah so far anyway. Her and her husband were really kind and her daughter let us use the computer and we looked at her photo...

Ok- first I'd like to say a huge thank you to Enid, for her contribution- I've used you're money to buy some books for the deaf children- so thank you! Also a biig thank you to Sheila- I recently received your books of games and they're ab fab! Will def be using some of the games from there. So glad I've finished my March hols postcard- but now I've gota fill you in on the Deaf Camp! On Monday, I showed my classes "Braveheart" and their reactions were quite...

Muslim wedding, adopting a baby orangutan, watching a mummy turtle lay her eggs, releasing baby hatchlings to the wild, trekking through the jungle in swamps of mud, going down the biggest river in Sabah in a long boat with man eating crocs beneath us, not wearing shoes and not getting more than 2hrs sleep for 5 days, partying it up for St Patrick's day in KK- was a friggin awesome March hol!!!!! I've been dreading writing this up cos I know its gona take for ...

Just returned from the local “Monsopiad Cultural Village”- twas ace! We didn’t really know what to expect cause the teachers and students I spoke to about it said there isn’t much to do there but turns out they were severely mistaken. On arrival, we were greeted by women in Kadazan (tribe of Penampang) dress and paid our RM50 entrance fee and headed to a sexy wooden seating area. Twas all tribal and ethnicy. The village was revamped in 199...