KK- St Patrick's Day At last reached KK at around 8 pm and headed straight for NBC to get the first shower. We randomly bumped into loadsa gappers that weekend. Aussie Ben and Britt Claire from West Malaysia arrived at NBC, having just climbed the mountain, then a few others and we ended up meeting with about 8 other gappers for drinks and took them to BED for a night out. Unfortunately they were all knackered from climbing the mountain and doing various thin...

Uncle Tan's Wildlife Camp A little minibus pulled up and we took the 1+1/2 hr drive to Uncle Tan's Camp Office, which was in the middle of nowhere and pretty derelict but the photos on the walls showed how intensely amazing the jungle was gona be- pics of elephants, insects, frogs, lizards- we all got a bit excited. We joined the 15 or so people already crammed in the small room- including a family of 4- 2 hippy-ish parents with mental kids. A boy aged 5, and a...

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...