Back in Miri
Hey one and all! How’s everyone doing? It’s Gayertree here, my very first blog entry, so just bear with me will ya? Currently at the hostel in Miri, the one that smells horribly of cat crap (something seriously has to be done about it man, geez!). We’re having brekkie, and getting ready to head off to the Niah Caves.
After a whole 4 days of blood, sweat, and thankfully no tears or injuries, the general mood is quite high really. I guess everyone’s just glad to get back to civilisation and enjoy all that modern technology has to offer. FREE INTERNET! WHOOO HOOOOO!! But seriously, everyone definitely has taken something back with them from our time in Bario, and those 10 days willl never be forgotten. The kindness and hospitality shown to us by our host Aunty Nancy, and the people we met along the way, and our awesomely fantastic guides Chris and Petrus(that guy i swear, is truly my hero), will always be remembered. The project phase left all of us with a great sense of satisfaction and achievement, and it was hard handing over to the next team who was going to work on it. We did almost 2 teams worth of work, wasnt really much for the rest of them to do. WE ARE SUCH LEGENDS! GO WHEELERS/BAYSWATER! The jungle trek proved to be quite the challenge, we had to brave leeches, and mossies, and all that mud, and rain, and going to the toilet in a hole in the ground. Absolute grossness, but we soldiered on nonetheless, only to emerge victorious! Hell yea. Was really hard leaving Bario, we had all grown so attached to the place. Don’t know about the others, but I am so definitely going back again!
Hard to believe we’ve almost completed half the challenge. Time really does fly when you’re having the time of your life. Oh well, I can hear Belle our leader for the day nagging us to hurry our butts up. So I shall conclude my ranting, and leave you for now.
Dont miss us too much now, will definitely try updating ASAP.
So long,
GAYERTREE =)
December 8th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Hi Ash. It’s great to hear from you, mum was getting cross because you hadn’t blogged. You should see your room. It’s like you never left, but we did find the library book that you hadn’t returned. All jokes aside, it looks like you are having a great time. We are all looking forward to hearing all the details from you. At Oma’s birthday party on Saturday every one was asking about you. On Sunday morning Nanny went with us to pick a Christmas tree. You would have been proud of us, we went from tree to tree arguing about which one was the best and Mikaela always wanted a different one. It took us nearly an hour but I think we did well. It nearly touches the roof. We are all missing you, it is very quiet around the place. Mikaela just can’t talk enough to make up for you but she is trying. We are counting down the days until you are back.
Love Dad.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
PS If you didn’t know Tilly is soooo dumb. On Friday afternoon mum washed the windows and back door. On Friday night Tilly went to race inside and ran straight into the door. She fell back and sat there shaking her head. Then she came over to me are acted as if I had told her off.