A few days ago, WWF-Malaysia, together with some boy scouts from KL and Singapore, carried out a mangrove-replanting program with the Standard 3, 4, 5 and 6 students (aged 9 to 12) of S.K. Mangkok, Setiu. The program started at about 7:30am with the students doing some clean-up at the replanting site in Kuala Baru. At about 8:30am, the boy scouts began the replanting process.
I’m not sure how many saplings were there but after an hour or so, the students managed to get the hang of it and started to pick up some speed and did some real work replanting the mangrove saplings. Though being kids, there were a few of them who played in the water more than they worked, LOL.
And when all the saplings were replanted, it was fun-time! These kids can really make something out of anything at all. Give them a log and a pool of water and here’s what they can do:
It was quite a fun day for the students, and hopefully they have a learned a little about mangroves and the roles that they play in our ecosystem. I can imagine the headache of trying to squeeze some information into a bunch of hyperactive kids who can’t sit still enough for the lesson to end, LOL. Or maybe Abang River (WWF-M staff stationed in Setiu) has a technique that can keep the students seated and not budge an inch during lessons? LOL.
And what better way to spend it than spending some time with some hyperactive kids at the beach once in a while?
It’s quite amazing that to these kids, going to the beach is almost as routine as eating dinner in the evenings. If the sea is calm enough for a swim, they will jump right into it, but if the waves are rough, they know that they are not supposed to go into the water and they would be happy to just walk along the beach, pick up useless stuff that are stranded on the beach such as broken toothbrush, broken slippers, broken plastic bottles :)
Last week as we were walking to the beach with the kids, I had a very funny conversation with 9-year-old Aman.
“Kak Chen, Kak Chen sembahyang tak?”
“Ya, saya sembahyang, tapi saya tak sembahyang lima kali sehari. Saya tak pergi masjid. Saya…” Before I could finish my sentence, he went, “HA?! Tak sembahyang lima kali?! Tak pergi masjid?!” in a very surprised way. You should have seen his face!
“Sebab Kak Chen pergi sembahyang di tokong. Orang Melayu sembahyang di masjid, orang Cina sembahyang di tokong dan orang India sembahyang di kuil, betul tak?” I asked him. But he just giggled at the explanation.
And I couldn’t help but think how nice it would be if we were all as colour-blind as Aman :)
Posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by
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I have just installed MobilePress — a WordPress plugin that turns your WordPress blog into a mobile-friendly blog when viewed on a phone — on my blog. Which means from now onwards, if you used your phone to read my blog, you will see a simpler format, sans the sidebar (and everything in it) as well as the blog theme.
You know, it’s pretty much like reading my blog in a feedreader :)
I have a feeling it will speed up the loading process, and hopefully keep you from tearing your hair especially when the wifi connection is not very stable (OK, it’s to keep me from pulling my own hair out).
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