Saturday, October 18, 2008

Replanting trees in the forest

I woke up late today at about 8.oo a.m. i was quite bit angry to myself because i was supposed to get up early this morning- this is my principal... then, immediately, i went to bathroom and bathed though i was tired- i slept late last night because i did my math internal assesment. i was suprised as i went out from the bathroom, i saw izudin get up from his bed.. usually he is still sleeping at this time.. i wonder why. later, i took ablution and performed dawn prayer and took breakfast. i only ate biscuits and drank a cup of coffeee.. never mind.. at least i had something to eat rather than nothing. i asked myself why arif also woke up early this morning.. quite strange...i looked they were like rushing and murmuring something that i could not hear.. i did not really bother because i had planned to do my homework. i hoped i could finish up all my tareas so that they wouldn't be burdensome to me.

Before they were leaving for somewhere, arep told me that he wanted to go to Bandar Sunway.. i could see that he was wearing socks at that time.. many questions had arised in my mind and i just assumed that they wanted to jog and have breakfast over there. when i was about to read bbc news, my tummy went 'crazy'. abruptly, i took the towel and entered the toilet.hmmm i felt relieved after that... somehow, right after i went out from the loo, my mobile phone rang.. hmm.. weird.. i answered the call and from the voice, i already that the person was arif.. he asked me to go to the field which was located near to bandar Sunway.. i doubted.. further on, i asked him for what purpose i should go there.. he said that we were going to replant trees and join some other interesting activities.. he urged me to go there quickly..

I put on my cap and shoes before leaving.. i walked as fast as i could. on the way to the place, izudin phoned me. he told me to register at a booth which was located near to the public toilet.
however, i could not imagine the place as i seldom went to bandar Sunway. From afar, i could see many peoople wearing green shirts and hanging bags at their arms.. they were also holding two or three trees at the same time. i supposed i was late..i summoned up the courage to find the booth and finally i found it. i asked the volunteer whether i could participate in the program.. he said,' yes u can'. Thank Allah the all Mighty.. i still got the chance to join the program. the volunteer gave me a bag, a green t-shirt aand a pen. i requested to plant trees at that place, but he said that i was a bit late to join the activity.. trying to cheer me up, he suggested to take part in other activities. i just said yes to him.. i was not satisfied actually. i called izudin and asked where he was.

He told that he and arif were in group 14 and they were planting trees in the forest. then, i asked a volunteer where was group 14 and he showed me the way to get there. along my way, i saw many people were busy planting trees. wow... So, hardworking and attentive.. at last, i found izu and arep.. Thank God. i told them i didn't get gloves to plant the tree. they explained what we must do and how to plant the tree. Actually, someone had already dug holes and marked the holes with long sticks. so, it would be easier to all volunteers to plant trees at the area. izu, then, gave his gloves to me so that i could try this activity. i was touched because he gave me the chance to plant the tree.

I was exuberant to see arep, izu and me working together as one group. we helped each other in this program. we alternately dug out the hole, put the tree insside it and covered the soil . if i am not mistaken, i managed to plant about 10 trees or more than that. some photographers took our pictures while we were doing this activity. i felt gratified though i was tired. afterwards, we went back to the main booth and came across azam, nurhayati and aileen. i never thought to see them there. we greeted each other and talked about how many plant they had planted.

There was a booth where all of us put our thumprints on a drawing. the drawing showed many trees without even a leaf. Our job was to stamp our thumbprints on the trees. this activity was really exciting. Then, we went to the food booth and ate sandwiches and fruits. i supposed they served scrumptous foods.. To have more fun and at same time try to complete my our CAS hour, we participated in eco-hunt. It was a treasure hunt and we had to figure out the types of trees, arrange a sequence of pictures, distiguish biodegradable and non biodegradable stuffs and make words from the alphabet given.

Izu and i managed to list 5 words related to enviroment for a short period. The words were biomass, bee, ants, tree and hmmm.... i forgot the last word.. then, after completing the task given for the eco hunt game, we returned the question papers to check our answers.. i thought we would win in this game. while waiting for the results to be announced, we took lunch together and drank orange juice. i also saw Zainal Abidin, one of my favourite artists, singing on the stage at the main booth.. he asked all people to sing together with him.. his performance was fantastic and exhilarating. one of the best parts in his perfomance was when he asked all the people to sing ' di bumi ini' using his tones. It was as if i attended vocal class at that time. frankly, i could not follow his tones and it was quite difficult for me to make the tones. Nevertheless, i really enjoyed his performance.

Later, we went to the eco hunt booth to know who would be the winner. after the person in charge explaining the answers, she announced the winner, first runner up and second runner up for this game. unfortunately, we lost in the game but we were still happy with the results. finally, we went back home to D shire. i wish i can participate other interesting and enjoying programs next time.