Friday, February 27, 2009

Rock Climbing At The American School

On Saturday, Bailey and I went with Mummy to the American School. Daddy went there, too. He rode there on his motorbike.

First we bought coupons for the playing. Mummy went to a room to look at books while Daddy brought Bailey and I to look at the games there.

We decided to go rock climbing. It was quite scary but I managed to go at least halfway up the wall.Once I was swinging on the rope that they attached me on because I fell off the wall. I almost kick somebody's head. He was a tall and strong helper who was there to catch the legs of swinging kids. Suddenly he looked up and the next thing I knew he was holding my leg. He pushed me back to the wall to continue climbing.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

West Indian Locust Tree


The West Indian Locus Tree is a tree that has a fruit called the "Stinking Toe". It's very very very very very stinky, but people like to eat it because it's very very very sweet. It's flower is pollinated by a Nectar Drinking Bat. People use a liquid that ooze out of the trunk, called resin for a lot of things like violin varnish. The wood from the West Indian Locust Tree will not be attacked by fungus and termites so it can be used to make things. Sometimes when you are walking around some where with a West Indian Locust Tree you will see bats pollinating the flowers at night. You may also notice holes on the tree. These holes are made by woodpeckers.

Monday, February 16, 2009

What I Did At Penyabong Beach

On Wednesday, Grandad came to pick us up from home to go to Johor Bahru orphanage because one of daddy's biking friend organized a trip to Penyabong beach with a group orphans. On the car, it was a tight squeeze because daddy also came.

When we reached the orphanage, the kids were already lining up to go into the bus. We talked with the pastor before we went into the bus. He is the one who takes care of the children in the orphanage.

On the way to Penyabong, some of Daddy's friends were playing and singing some Christian songs. After a while, I slept so I didn't know much of what was happening around me.

When we reached the beach, all the kids were eager to play including me. But we all had to eat our lunch first. LOL!!!

After we finished eating, we started our fun. We took out our sand play toys and shared it with the other children. Some children dug a big pit in the sand and fill it with water. A few children helped to carry sea water using a big plastic bag we found on the beach. I helped too. We also buried our friends in the sand. I had a fun time burying one boy.

We played in the water. I played water polo with Bailey and another boy.


At first I played soccer with a few other boys. After that, almost all the children joined in. My team lost because many of the good players in my team quited half way through.

We played some interesting group games. We played a few types of game like master mine we played it by drawing squares on the sand. One group has a clip board with a paper of the same number of squares. They use a magnet to plant bombs in certain squares. The people from the other group will not know where the bombs are. They will try to get to the end without stepping on any bombs.



We also caught some crabs nearing the end of the day.




After that we went to bathe then walked on the sand bars.