Malaysia Week was really fun. It is about all the Middle School students go to different places in Malaysia. You can either go to Coastal or Rain forest. This year I went to Coastal. I went to Pulau Tioman an island located at the East Coast of Malaysia.
When we arrived there the first day we were there it was raining. So we rested in our rooms. It felt good after traveling on a bus for 7 hours and on a boat for 2 hours. That night I couldn't sleep. As it got later and later I started to hear little paws and screeching. I turned on the lights and saw a long pink tail go under the furniture. It was a rat! Apparently it was in the trash.
The next day we hiked for 5-4 hours across the mountain. There were many leeches and mosquitoes. It was very tiring but when we got to the top it really paid off. We got to swim in a waterfall! It was really cold but it was nice at the end. When we got to the bottom where the beach was we had to walk in the rain until we got to our camping site. When we got there we had to put up our tents.
That night we cooked our own dinner. That night our site leader told us there was a big boa constrictor near to out campsite, and three girls left their tent open. Luckily the snake didn't go in. It rained in the night and all our things were wet.
In the morning we walked for 1 hour to a turtle sanctuary. There we learnt about a turtle called Jo who was naturally blind, so she had no eyeballs. She was a green sea turtle but even though she can't see she has really strong sense of smell. After that we went on a boat for 2 hours and went to snorkel at this place called Soya. There we saw baby sharks and a variety of different fish. After that we went to the other side of the island on boat and went back to the hotel. We rested until it was time to go to dinner. That night we were exhausted so we fell asleep right away.
In the morning we went to snorkel to 3 different places, one of them being Coral Island. When we got to Coral Island the water was so clear we could see the bottom and the sand at shore was white and soft. We snorkeled there for about an hour. We went to this other place after that, it was a Marine Park. The water there was so deep I couldn't see the bottom. We didn't stay there for very long because most of the people weren't snorkeling.
The next morning we were rushed because we didn't want to miss the boat back to the main land, and if we did then we would've had to wait until the other boat comes at 4:00. We didn't have much to eat that morning. Luckily we were allowed to stop and buy a few snacks for the long way back home. Then when we entered Melacca we had lunch. The last day of Malaysia Week was sad, none of us wanted to leave this beautiful Island.
