ML - 24th, April, 2010 Saturday (29C, Cloudy then Rain) Kuching : Swimming

Swimming was our best sport during our stayed in Kuching. We would like to play in the water during the hot afternoon. It would be even more exciting when it rained after the hot sun.

ML - 22th, April, 2010 Thursday (30C, Sunny) Kota Samarahan : Celebrating 40 Years of Earth Day

Under the lead of the school's teachers and the head master, over 50 pupils of age around 5 to 6 years old of the Eduland Kindergarten of Kuching, Sarawak participated in the celebrating 40 years of the Earth Day by planting trees near the roadside of the Sarawak Club Resort in Kota Samarahan.

On April 22, 1970, 22 million people participated in the first-ever Earth Day, which was designed to raise awareness about the environment and inspire citizens to take action to protect it.

The pupils started a happy journey by taking the school buses.

They digged the soil and put them into the tanks.
Covered the roots of the baby plants with the soil.

Then, water them.

After that, they have a rest under the trees, which the outdoor temperature was over 30C under the sun.

The Sarawak Club Golf Resort

Together with the young, beautiful head master, who is the daughter-in-law of my old head master of the kindergarten.

ML - 3rd March to 23th, April 2010 (23 ~32C, Sunny) Kuching : Eduland (浮羅岸愛兒園)

After Chinese New Year, for a warm-up study of primary 1 for Syuan starting from the 1st, September of this year, Syuan and Ray go to the Padungan Eduland Kindergarten from 3rd, March to 23th, April, before we return to Taiwan.

The school has been established since 1960, she is celebrating her 50 years old birthday this year. Nearly 5 years old, I cried with my parents that I wanted to go to school. So, my father asked his friend, whose wife owned a kindergarten to take me and I started my first eduction here. I was pleased because I could sing, read simple "a, b, c,..", play the see-saw & slide in the play ground, eat biscuits and drink Milo that the school provided (though paid by the parents) with the other children in the morning.

Now a day, when my children went to the school in the morning, they were no food provided for the tea break but needed to bring by ourselves, no more playing in the playground during the tea break, less stories telling but most of the time spent on learning the words or writting in Chinese, English, Malay and Maths, in order to be ready for the primary school lessons. After school, they still have some writting lessons to be finished.

Especially for Syuan and Ray, they missed the lessons which started from January, they need more time to learn from the beginning. They joined the after school tuition class, so that they will have a bath, lunch, snap and tuition to finish their homeworks until 4pm.

Thank you for the teaching and caring of the teachers, their assistances & kakak (sisters in Malay) who take care of their learning and living during the kindergarten, more thanks to say to their aunties and uncle who drove them up and down to school, and bought their favoured food " Kolo mee"(a kind of dried noodle of Kuching), mini tomato (300mg for Eu$2, half imported from West Malaysia, Genting highland), ice kacang, etc.

Starting from the beginning of writting "-", "l" in Chinese, they can read & hand writting many single words to sentences now.

Apple in Kindergarten 2, she learns all in the sentenses.
白猫跑, 青蛙跳, 我會唱歌, 他愛跳舞, etc

keretapi, bus, motosikal, gunting, kertas, pensil, merah, kuning, biru, putih, hijau, hitam, etc in Malay

Ray in Kindergarten 1, he learned single words, such as:
a~ z in Malay: ayam, baju, cawan, durian, epal, foto, gajah, hujan, ikan, jam, kasut, lembu, mangga, nenas, otak, paku, qari, rumah, susu, tikus, ular, van, wau, x, y, z.

二, 人, 大,小, 天, 口, 耳, 田, 火, 水 , 汁, 木, 地, 花, 草, 樹, etc in simple Chinese

They have no LEGO to play with, so Ray loves to play with the clothes clips and make his creations, like a colourful fan, a man singing with the microphone, a clips ring for her sister, some guns and a horse for his Power Ranger, etc..

ML - 2nd, April, 2010 Friday (23 ~33, Sunny) Mt. Singai, Bau: Good Friday

The beauty of the nature in Moutain Singai, Bau, Sarawak, East Malaysia in Borneo. Is this one of the new species found in Borneo?

The first time, the children followed their aunties to mountain climbing with their friends- Mr & Mrs Teo, which are their weekend hobby.

Up to the hill, we walked on the wet, slippery, loosed stairs and bridges with mosses under the tropical rain forest.

All along the way, there are 15 memorial huts with Jesus stories. People lighted them up with more candles, especially on this special occasion--Good Friday.

After 25 to 30mins, we arrived at the Catholic Memorial and the Grimage Centre Mount Singai

Every stones, woods, steels and sands were sent from the bottom of the hill to the Central by manpower

We had a rest and enjoyed the natural wild fruits on the trees. The skin of the fruits are red and hard with angles, bigger than cherries (hold on my hand), the yellowish fruit (hold on my sister's hand) which has a seed inside tasted sweet & sour.

Before noon, we left the center. Ray was too tried to walk by himself and needed the help of Wah aunty to carry him on the back. Syuan still steady to walk by herself with Eng aunty.

Before we found some Korean tourists gathered and lead by a father at a Jesus memorial hut, Ray would like to walk by himself.

And, some European tourists were the place too.

Some natives children were playing near the stream.

When we returned to the bottom again, we all sweated happily.

We drove back to the city center and refreshed with ice kacang (red beam mixed)
and, Belacan bihun special (rice noodle with squid and some preserved egg cooked in dried shrimps sauce.