this post is more to travelogue. and more in malay . HAHAHA
so some aborigines vocabs.
amek - mother
apak - father
so, lets start.
June 14th, Tuesday
I supposed to take bus at 8am but it was late. the journey from penang to ipoh started around 10am. sorry for that.
Kak awatif fetched me at medan gopeng, ipoh. then, we headed to RCMP.
Actually, i'm little bit shy to go in because i already knew some of them.
okay. this sound ridiculous. LOL.
ah ! i forgot to bring my toothbrush. damn. so i went to UO mall while kak awatif had a project discussion.
I wandered in the mall about 2 hours . walked here and there. alone. LOL.
Then, while i'm eating, Kak Ain called me. so I'm hurried to RCMP. hahaha.
nothing much. She asked me to help with the questionnaires form. as a reward, i got lipton ice tea. weewee~ Bik was there too.
Around 5 pm , we had a convoy to simpang pulai . the feeling was so indescribable. you know. being around people that you didnt even recognize. i felt so timid. ;O; *speechless*
i'm a kind that dont talk much and it takes time for me to mingle and get along with others. my bad. paranoid maybe?
Arrived. the view. Lebih kurang macam rumah PPRT ? Ape ntah. yang program satu keluarga satu rumah tu. rumah semua takde elektrik. malam malam memang gelap gelita. Kami berhenti dekat area bawah. Kawasan perumahan tu atas bukit. ada la dalam 500 meter. Yang ni kampung Kerawat la. Kampung Pergum lagi jauh .
Then, they divided us into group and i was paired with a KESEDAR student-YAYA and get 2 aborigines families.A Muslim and A Christian families. from Kerawat.
Sebagai sesi perkenalan dengan keluarga baru, setiap keluarga akan dapat sekampit beras and biskut bagai. dan anak angkat yang kena sampaikan semua tu . macam hadiah la .
then, speech and speech and bla and bla, it ended almost midnight . then, we went to our family and ready for sleep ! HUH? okay.
of course it started with knowing-you-knowing-me session.
Talk about this and that . well, it is important to be acquainted with the new family.
well, we get along very well. then, SLEEP !
oh. that is how the first day ended.
It'd looks simple but we had task along with us to be done.
we need to collect five sample of feaces or stool and filled the questionnaires.
June 15th, Wednesday .
i woke up late. around 6.30am. LOL. okay.
i supposed not to do that.
when i want to do my subuh prayer, i asked to my amek, where is the kiblat ?
then, she asked me, " tak nak sikat rambut dulu ke? ni ada cermin ."
i was like HUH ? I asked again. ye lah kan. lambat subuh pulak kan.
She refused to answer. Yaya looked out and luckily we were very near with the tent which was set up for surau. From there, we knew our kiblat.
Then we went down for breakfast.
everyone started their first night story with new family.
one of my friend - dia tanya dekat amek n apak dia
"kiblat mana? "
apak tu jawab -
" sini bole, sini bole, sini pun bole" *tangan sambil tunjuk tiga arah berbeza*
although we got the muslim family, penghayatan hidup Islam diorang sangat kurang.
itulah sebenarnya tujuan kitorang ke sana.
sambil medical service sambil dakwah.
we tried our best to make Islam looks simple tapi tak melanggar syarak.
cara mudah untuk mereka memahami agama Islam itu mudah.
sambil sambil tu, aku pun belajar la jugak skit cara berdakwah ni.
sangat menarik. :)
Next program was praktikal sembelihan .
It was fun though. Last praktikal waktu form 5 dulu. dekat Balik Pulau. Waktu tu guna burung puyuh dan 5 ekor sempat sembelih.
This time, it was chicken ! DAN berjaya praktikal 2 ekor ! :) alhamdulillah
so, we took the chicken. dead chicken back home and cook .
the menu - ayam bakar ^^
in the evening, it was raining heavily. but i enjoyed it. being in cold for a while. how refreshing was that !
we had game session with aborigines-the kids . it was totally fun !
you know. watching them running here and there. just like in the movies.
i'm touched . deep in my heart . they view that you wont be able to see in town residency.
then, i went back and bathed. after solat isyak, i fell asleep.
my body was little bit hot and i had runny nose.
maybe because i was heavily soaked in rain water that evening. LOL
I woke up around nearly 9 . i went down the hill and seniors were doing the medical check up.
Kak ain called me and asked me to help her.
Another thing that fascinates me. i watched the whole process of medical check up.
I learned a lot that night.
How the correct way to take pulse.
why we need to ask this kind of questions to patients?
this symptoms lead to what disease?
and why this and that?
you have to master in everything.
one more thing was, they were aborigines and they have their own language.
so, we need to ask in the most simple way so that they can understand us.
it is very fascinating. the situation.
after everything is done, before i go to sleep, the situation wandering in my mind.
and i keep asked this question to myself,
"am i ready? am i fully mentally and physically prepared?
am i really want to become a doctor?"
the worst part - in the middle of night, i woke up and couldn't sleep.
VERY COLD ! it was very windy out there.
eventhough i slept in the house, the wind still can go in.
the most eerie part is, the zinc. rumah beratapkan zink.
bayangkan, tengah tengah tidur ni, tiba-tiba atap berbunyik. naik seram lah.
macam pontianak tengah marathon atas bumbung. CUAK tak yah cakap la kan.
dah la bunyi tak berhenti. tetiba dapat idea.
rasional nya bumbung berbunyi, kan kat luar tu angin kuat gileee -,-'' . ceh.
Cuba la nak sambung tido balik.
Failed.
SEJUK yang teramat. gelap pulak tu. nak tarik la selimut.
eh? mana selimut ni. tadi dah selimut dah.
*sambil cuba raba dengan kaki*.
kenapa ada kat bawah sangat. . . . . . . . sapa pulak tarik selimut nihhh. sudaahhhh.
macam macam la.
At the end, i fell asleep .
what a scary creepy night.
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i will continue this story. PART 2 .
too long meh.
i want to relax for a few days. *which ends tomorrow*