Project Orion II: Day 8 - Orion goes SHOPping~~

Introduction to Project Orion II

Project Orion II - Rovering with Turtles
is the 4th Scouts of the World Award (SWA) Voluntary Service Project of the SWA Singapore Base.

The 2nd installment of this project will be led by 9 youths from Singapore and they will return to Setiu, Terengganu, where the pioneer team had left their legacy a year ago.

The primary aim of the team would be the conservation of sea turtles, but that would not be their only contribution during the project duration of 26th June to 10th July. The 9 passionate youths will also be involved in mangrove replanting, repair work for the villagers and WWF info centre and English and conservation awareness education for the children.

"Leave the place a little better than you first found it." - Lord Baden Powell

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Day 8 - Orion goes SHOPping~~

Hey there people, It’s DAY 8!!! :D. Time flies eh?? Before I start about our wondrous 8^th day, Lets introduce our new room-mate “Horn-y”

A pointy little fella isn’t he?? To bad he’s only going to be staying overnight. In an extremely nice and refurbished 100plus bottle and going home to the wild the next day because he was scared by one of the girl in the group (whose name can’t be mentioned..SHHHHH) who screamed and after that he seemed to be dead. Apparently he survived :D. All the best Horn-y.

Now moving on to day 8. In the morning, we actually woke up later than usual. The reason?? WE WERE GOING TO THE MARKET!!! WHOOO. Breakfast was Mee with a fried egg by the way. So we left for the market at about 0930hrs. The market was huge!!! It was simple yet full of surprises. There were items that range from local food items to clothing and even ice KWEEEM :D. Very very nice ice cream for RM1. And yet again apparently one of the girl in the group was so fascinated that she opened her eyes bigger to get a better view. Until now, no one knows if she was fascinated by the market or by the 8 handsome guys that were around.

After walking for a short while (Accompanied by lots of food and drinks), the team came across an old man selling turtle eggs. The eggs were sold at 3 for RM10. When asked where he obtained the eggs, he said that he obtained the eggs from Langkawi and not locally. I guess some of us at that point of time would feel suspicious if whether or not it was the truth.

After walking around the market, we went to a flower shop to buy some flowers. After much discussion and haggling, we bought back a pitcher plant, about 40 cactus and some fertilizer for about $110 to decorate the pink house.

Well after all that shopping and other stuff (We bought new tables for the kids:D). A few of us decided to head back to the pink house first because some of us being businessmen had to rush back to the pink house to settle our big businesses. After which it was dinner time. And someone sway sway kena taopok by the rest of the team. Because that stupid idiot went to pull another guy on top of himself. Who is the smart boy? I shall not say :X .

After dinner is then the night class. While half of the team had to go see the terrapins the rest stayed back to help in the lessons (Well there was a language barrier but we tried at least). After that the kids went on to assist us in preparing the gifts for the sponsors for the project as can be seen in the picture below they all can draw very nicely (Even nicer than me).