longhouse trip
Last week was my tuition free week. Still I had assignments to do. Urgh I hate that unit, but I did do some other stuff. Like sing karaoke with my friends and go on a trip to a longhouse.
I went on a trip to a longhouse last week and spent 3 days and 2 nights there. We were with the Curtin Volunteers! and we were supposed to help them out and do community service and stuff like that, but they weren't the incredibly remote and technology-deprived we expected them to be. So we didn't exactly do much. We just helped out at the farm and washed the dishes. Also helped prepare food and the guys cooked a bit. XD The Ibans made quite a fuss about it. The guys were...uh...interesting to watch. XD
Later the girls learned ngajat from an Iban girl. It was hard, for me at least. I have terrible coordination, plus I was really really stiff. The others were smooth though. I even got the chance to put on their traditional costumes. Which was kinda heavy. Our OC, kah wai, seemed to be a natural. We all drank a little bit of traditional wine, which they call tuak. It burned. And on the second night kah wai challenged another guy, Johnny, to a drinking competition. It was really stupid. I left before they finished. By then they were unable to walk in straight lines. Ahahahaha. Later my friend told me that Johnny ended up throwing up outside the longhouse. And I saw Kah Wai being helped back to their room by two of the guys. He drank so much he couldn't even walk. Poor things. XD. But he was nice enough to help me drink tuak.
On the very last day I was really unlucky. We were going outside to wash the dishes and I put my slippers on the top step. The longhouse was on stilts by the way. I slipped into the slippers and somehow fell off the stairs and hit my head on the cement floor. Hard. It hurt a lot and the place where I made contact with the floor swelled up big. I couldn't get up initially. My foster dad for the trip helped me up and my foster mum and another auntie helped me into a room. I think I scared a lot of people. haha. One of the guys told me later I hit the floor real loud. He heard me two doors away. O.O THAT HARD.
All in all, I had fun. My head still hurts though. Hahaha. Pity the pictures taken aren't with me. D= Oh well. Maybe I'll get them someday.
I went on a trip to a longhouse last week and spent 3 days and 2 nights there. We were with the Curtin Volunteers! and we were supposed to help them out and do community service and stuff like that, but they weren't the incredibly remote and technology-deprived we expected them to be. So we didn't exactly do much. We just helped out at the farm and washed the dishes. Also helped prepare food and the guys cooked a bit. XD The Ibans made quite a fuss about it. The guys were...uh...interesting to watch. XD
Later the girls learned ngajat from an Iban girl. It was hard, for me at least. I have terrible coordination, plus I was really really stiff. The others were smooth though. I even got the chance to put on their traditional costumes. Which was kinda heavy. Our OC, kah wai, seemed to be a natural. We all drank a little bit of traditional wine, which they call tuak. It burned. And on the second night kah wai challenged another guy, Johnny, to a drinking competition. It was really stupid. I left before they finished. By then they were unable to walk in straight lines. Ahahahaha. Later my friend told me that Johnny ended up throwing up outside the longhouse. And I saw Kah Wai being helped back to their room by two of the guys. He drank so much he couldn't even walk. Poor things. XD. But he was nice enough to help me drink tuak.
On the very last day I was really unlucky. We were going outside to wash the dishes and I put my slippers on the top step. The longhouse was on stilts by the way. I slipped into the slippers and somehow fell off the stairs and hit my head on the cement floor. Hard. It hurt a lot and the place where I made contact with the floor swelled up big. I couldn't get up initially. My foster dad for the trip helped me up and my foster mum and another auntie helped me into a room. I think I scared a lot of people. haha. One of the guys told me later I hit the floor real loud. He heard me two doors away. O.O THAT HARD.
All in all, I had fun. My head still hurts though. Hahaha. Pity the pictures taken aren't with me. D= Oh well. Maybe I'll get them someday.