Hi everyone, it’s my turn to update the blog! You may be wondering what MBB stands for, it actually means “mud, banana and boat”. Unlike previous days’ schedules where we were supposed to paint the houses and go for night patrolling, today’s programme was to interact and work with the kids and the Pewanis through mangrove replanting and the making of banana chips. When we reached the mangrove replanting area, our group of 9 people were divided into 3 groups, which are helping out with the transport seedlings, beach cleaning and planting the seedlings at the mangrove area. Everyone did an excellent job in planting the seedlings even though the mud was really “sticky” and the digging of the mud was quite difficult. Therefore, thanks to everyone’s effort and contribution, all of us managed to complete the mangrove replanting within the whole morning and we took a group photo with the kids and the Pewanis group for us to remember.
After which, we had our banana chip-making session at the Pink House. There were people coming to Pink House to view the process of banana chip making: the villagers from other houses, the kids and also the reporters from Kuala Terengganu, which came for the purpose of knowing more and looking at what our project is about. We were trying to learn and practice the steps of how to make banana chips from the Pewanis, which is a local community organization consists of women. The process was quite tedious: from peeling the banana skins, slicing the banana flesh, frying the banana and then followed by packing of fried banana chips. However, we managed to pick up the skills in a short period of time and the members of Pewanis were quite surprised and said that we did a great job in assisting them for the banana chips making.
Next, all of us went for dinner at Kar Tar’s house after having a quick nap and we had our next activity which was the firefly boat ride.The objective of the boat ride was to view the fireflies around the Kampung Mangkok River. While the boat was steering towards the firefly area,all of us felt uncomfortable and irritated by the petrol smell and engine noise but it’s all worth it because we managed to see LOTS of fireflies flying around the area and some of us caught some fireflies to view it up close and it feels great to have the firefly crawling around yr palm. Also, Ming Xian conducted her mini “sing-along’ session with the kids in the boat and the kids were enjoying themselves with the “shark” song etc. The boat ride ended quite fast and we received a call from River that he wanted to treat us for supper, so everyone went for supper and ordered some food while watching world cup and had a chit-chat session with each other.
So overall for today, it was fun and enriching, unlike painting houses and we shall look forward to the next day where there will be more exciting things for us to do. Catch us in the next “blogging” episode!
Signing off,
Ding Kun
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