ok i'm gonna do my day by day thing now. haha i'm too used to waking up early now. woke up at 6.30am. and my stomach is growling like mad cos i havent had breakfast. haha

DAY ONE! wednesday 1 june
car ride to school. bonded with my phone before saying goodbye to it. sat on a coomfy bus to tanah merah ferry terminal. waited for ass long. had breakfast of milo. uneventful ferry ride to bintan. bused to see our dorms. i was strangely indifferent towards it. it was basically just a really big room with two rows of mattresses on the floor and then a 'kitchen' and toilet with two showers and two FLUSHLESS toilets. damn long facilitation in the facilitation room. then headed for lunch at the canteen. food was not too bad at all. bused down to see our village EKANG ANCULAI! hahah the kids were damn excited. we didnt do much the first day, just went in to meet what would become our most beloved class. since we were unprepared, we just sang twinkletwinkle little stars, played london bridge and mother hen and eagle etcetc. got back. me and shar decided to bathe later after dinner. damn freaking long and bumpy ride to the kelong dinner (which wasnt all that good but they had candrinks!) but then we got played out when lynn said no bathing after dinner. that really just did it for me man. i was hot, tired, dirty and unhappy and i wanted to GO HOME!

DAY TWO! thursday 2 june
i dont really remember much about this day. it was basically breakfast, full day of teaching (i.e. both morning and afternoon class), i think we played what's the time mr wolf and hokeypokey. i'll never be able to ask what's the time the same way again. haha. then dinner time and pasah oleholeh! day two was pretty bad as well. alot of dinnertime drama and unsatisfying shopping at pasah oleholeh.

DAY THREE! friday 3 june
this was like the peaking of the trip! we did drawing and colouring with the kids and it was damn fun. there was this girl in the morning class who went around and took our hands and put it to her head as a sign of respect and it was really the sweetest thing ever. and in the afternoon class, i sat with a bunch of kids and helped them with the drawings. my group was the most well behaved haha. and this adorable boy called niko kept showing me his drawings :D the best part of the day was MANGROVE TOUR! when they told us about it at first i thought we would have to walk through the jungle in mud and with snakes all over BUT it was actually a boat ride! it was freaking awesome. pitch black all over as we stepped on to the boat. a little scary but as we zipped off on the water, the nighttime breeze just blew EVERYTHING away, all the irritation and stress. and then, you look up and you see the most AMAZING stars ever. freaking gorgeous. so many of them and so bright and sparkly against the black sky. i just leaned back and looked up at the sky the whole boat ride. AND WE SAW A SHOOTING STAR!!!! :D :D haha of cos not to forget the fireflies that flew around us and into our hair making us look like princesses! that would have been pretty much the highlight of the wholee trip. facilitation with skittles after that!

DAY FOUR! saturday 4 june
this was a really slack day. only had to teach the morning classes who were the youngest and therefore most quiet. then headed down for the fisherman tour! it was raining alot so we had to hang around and wait for it to stop. then they had some stupid traditional dance and the guy just had to pull me up to dance. hahaha. the tour was fun! me shar fi and shi got onto this boat and we were just screaming like bimbotic cows. cos we kept rocking side to side. but it was really quite scary! got off on an island so see crabs, fishes etcetc. bbq dinner after that which ROCKED. and then pasah oleholeh with HAAGEN DAZ!! and facilitation.

DAY FIVE! sunday 5 june
shopping day at tanjong penang! freaking long and bumpy bus ride. sat with jolene the one with the good music zen! haha bumped my head alot :( first mall was terribly depressing. it was just a "covered street" with shops. nothing much to buy except pirated dvds which werent allowed :( bused down for lunch with yummy soup! then headed over to the much better mall - ramayana. what really traumatised me was the toilets. shant go into details there. got wheezer's album! and shishi got me this bracelet thing. haha then the both of us decided to go into charlie's chicken where she got picked up with a napkin full of PEACE AND LOVEEE. hahah. then back to the dorms. dinnertime, pasah oleholeh and facilitation! going over to the central part of bintan made me pretty sad cos it was then that i realised just how lucky we are in singapore and how much more advanced we are.

DAY SIX! monday 6 june
this was THE most tiring day ever. since the classes were having exams, we did painting and planting and all round cleaning up instead. so first it was the painting. it was kind of fun i suppose except we all got pretty dirty plus it was freaking hot. then we headed off and got recruited to do planting. which was grubby and i swopped and did sweeping instead. sweeping was therapeutic. taught some random class after that cos our usual classes werent there :( unloaded tons of pens and candy and stickers on the kids. took pictures etcetc. then headed off for mangrove tour part two in the day. it was quite disappointing and nothing at all like the first one. we saw a couple of snakes tho and the scenery was awesome. dinner. pasah oleh oleh. Q&A with mr useless ho in the visitor centre. thank goodness for the aircon but i was bloody falling asleep. and then we go back for facilitation by the candlelight (i.e. very dark and no fans). AND THEN mrlynn decides to have a talk with us which lasted till freaking one am. but the talk fired us up and so when we got back it was bitching session till misstoh had to force us to 'lights out'.

DAY SEVEN! tuesday 7 june
library opening ceremony. i think the bintan people are seriously RUDE. there we were having the opening ceremony and there these official vips were sitting with their legs open, smoking like chimneys and falling asleep. the stupid ceremony was too freaking long if you asked me. was quite disappointed that we never got to see our afternoon class to say bye :( hung around a bit then headed off for lunch in, LITERALLY, the middle of nowhere. but the food was good and the scenery was good too. and mrlynn shared with us three of the seven habits of the effective bitch. hahahah. then headed back to the dorms for clean up and pack up and BYEBYE TO IT FOREVER AS WE HEAD OF FOR THE RESORT! (it was a little sad tho) at the resort we were greeted with CHILLED DRINKS! hoorahh! then checked in into our AIRCONDITIONED ROOMS with BEDS and FLUSHING TOILET! first thing i did was to take a glorious bath. then shi, jolene, seeyun and i headed over to the gorgeous beach to play about in the water and climb boulders. went off for dinner at pasah oleholeh. yummaye food. good company :) more last minute grocery shopping there. then back to the resort. facilitation at the lobby. it was web of friendship time and we all passed around our books and wrote stuff for people. felt quite celebrity like but after a while it got really tiring. we stayed there till about 1plus am. then headed back to the room. people kept popping over and then it was just me shi and amanda falling into slumber at three am.

DAY EIGHT! wednesday 8 june
was supposed to wake up at five for the sunset but got woken up at seven by shar instead saying we missed it! washed up and hung around waiting for breakfast at eight instead. BREAKFAST WAS SO EFFING GOOD! it was like buffet style and we just went mad i tell you. fried rice, hashbrowns, sausages, bloody good pancakes, more hashbrowns, sunny side up egg, omelette with ham etcetcetc and ORANGE JUICE my love. headed down to the beach and played around with the hammock and took pictures and watched a volleyball match. then back to the room. more pictures. pack up and check out. bummed around in the waiting room. then went down to the lobby to sleeeeeep. bus ride to the ferry terminal! the bus was freaking cool, the biggest i'd ever seen haha. and then it was a rocky, triggerhappy, jimmyeatworld ride home. HOMEEEEE. not as cracked up as it should have been but pretty alright. haha PIZZA PIGOUT DINNER. and then bonding with the computerr till early in the morning!

phew that was effing long. i think i took about an hour and a half to do that. now it's time to go for debrief in school!