too hot to think.
i had the tremendous privilege of working in borneo for 2 months when a student, and spent part of that plying my future trade up and down the deepest interior of the rainforest in a motorised canoe from marudi and sibu. perhaps i was more acclimatised, but i feel hotter and sweatier and stickier than then! we have had a torrential downpour, which doesn’t seem to have reduced heat or humidity. there i always stood under the mandy to tip cold water over my head to let me sleep! [you can see i was a honoured visitor to the iban and dayak longhouses, as more commonly all bathing is done in the lovely leech infested rivers!]
anyway, it was too hot to think all day, so we did butterfly half paintings, where you fold to get the mirror image. that took up lots of day! sb also did a paint a fairy kit, and bb lots of paddling pooling. we read about camille and the sunflowers and looked at our fab sunflowers. i did a sunflower picture that we then took a print from.
we did a bit of french about clothes, but its been too hot to think, so we also did harvesting = beans and pots for tea. and i did some weeding after all.
i am now going to collapse infront of a prog about australian wildlife and hope bb goes to sleep soon – she had a siesta unfortunately!
I think the difference is that the heat in the UK comes on quickly, prolonged for a few months; whereas here in Asia Pacific we have heat year round. For some reason this reminds me now of women who have short labours, with quick relief versus those who have labour for days :).
In Singapore lately it has been humid (as always) but pleasantly cool. Of course, that coolness would be considered hot in other parts of the world!
I hope to visit Sibu within this year, as well as other parts of Indonesia and Malaysia. You should plan to bring your family on a rainforest trip again. We’ll be here in Singapore at least another 3 years, so there is always housing and vegetarian food available for you :).
Raihanah
that sounds like a very tempting offer! i loved malaysia – though i did only see sarawak and a bit of sabah! but also came in through singapore