Beeping Children and Orangutans
Hi again,
I love the music in here, we are surrounded by kids and adults playing computer games all of which have a great techno soundtrack.
We are currently in Sandakan, a small city with absolutly no night life. it is right on the sea but there is a market and a navy base of sorts in the way so you can't really see the water. Yesturday Katie and I went for a walk up to the observation pavilion to have a look over the city. about half way up we noticed some ominous clouds and of course the next minute we found out what monsoon means. we got absolutely soaked but it was warm. we waited for about an hour at the pavillion for the sky to clear then we walked back to town. Thats better, I just changed computers here because I had a runaway w key causing lot of wwwwwwwwwwww's to spontaneously appear.
Last night we saw what until today was the highlight of the trip so far. Sort of a you had to be there moment but anway... there was a small child probably about 2 or 3 in a parked car, she was standing on the drivers seat and holding the steering wheel with one hand and beeping the horn with the other, she kept at it but no one seemed to care. I am sure she was just saying to her parent hurry up I am bored and want to go home it was just hilareous.
Now to a real highlight and lowlight at the same time. Today katie and I went to an Orangutan sanctuary. They rehabilitate orangutans but to make money they feed them where tourists can see. It was great to see them all swinging around not in a cage and arguing with the monkeys about bananas. the only problem is of course something we contrubute to, Tourists. Once again naive bus loads of people with flashing cameras. Yes I can't help be a hypocrite it is hard, I really wanted to see them but I hate being part of the problem. Some people do the right thing, stand quietly look and move on quietly, others do the wrong thing make noise shout to their friends rush toward the orangutans and even try to shake their hands. but I am still glad to have seen them.
Dylan
I love the music in here, we are surrounded by kids and adults playing computer games all of which have a great techno soundtrack.
We are currently in Sandakan, a small city with absolutly no night life. it is right on the sea but there is a market and a navy base of sorts in the way so you can't really see the water. Yesturday Katie and I went for a walk up to the observation pavilion to have a look over the city. about half way up we noticed some ominous clouds and of course the next minute we found out what monsoon means. we got absolutely soaked but it was warm. we waited for about an hour at the pavillion for the sky to clear then we walked back to town. Thats better, I just changed computers here because I had a runaway w key causing lot of wwwwwwwwwwww's to spontaneously appear.
Last night we saw what until today was the highlight of the trip so far. Sort of a you had to be there moment but anway... there was a small child probably about 2 or 3 in a parked car, she was standing on the drivers seat and holding the steering wheel with one hand and beeping the horn with the other, she kept at it but no one seemed to care. I am sure she was just saying to her parent hurry up I am bored and want to go home it was just hilareous.
Now to a real highlight and lowlight at the same time. Today katie and I went to an Orangutan sanctuary. They rehabilitate orangutans but to make money they feed them where tourists can see. It was great to see them all swinging around not in a cage and arguing with the monkeys about bananas. the only problem is of course something we contrubute to, Tourists. Once again naive bus loads of people with flashing cameras. Yes I can't help be a hypocrite it is hard, I really wanted to see them but I hate being part of the problem. Some people do the right thing, stand quietly look and move on quietly, others do the wrong thing make noise shout to their friends rush toward the orangutans and even try to shake their hands. but I am still glad to have seen them.
Dylan
posted by Dylan at 6:14 PM
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