Yesterday me and the Marine Science students headed out from camp down to Kota Kinabalu. The students are going to Brunei to do field work, all part of their studies. Pretty awesome going to Brunei to do fieldwork. They'll be back in Kota Kinabalu on Saturday.
Me, Prof Steve and Dino are going to Semporna this afternoon, early tomorrow morning we'll take a boat out to Pom Pom island. There we'll make an assessment and re-con about what we need to build up the camp, how the camp should look with tents, kitchen, showers and toilets, and also storage facilities. We'll be there for a day trying to make sure with have a good plan for the re-build of the TRACC Pom Pom camp. Hopefully with a bit of planning and organization we'll be able to re-build camp and get people over there without to much problem.
I've been staying at Hotel Horizon for a night. I took a nice warm long shower, get my feet cleaned properly. Yesterday evening I went to have dinner at Little Italy. I had a seafood soup with pasta, and it was probably the best seafood soup I've ever eaten. Perfectly seasoned with a generous amount of seafood.
Got back to my room early, talked to mum and dad and then had an amazing good nights sleep in a comfortable bed with crispy clean white sheets :)What a contrast to camp life :)
This morning I had a nice breakfast, soon I'll be checking out. I'm going over to the shopping mall to try and find a new camera, my land camera is dead.
This afternoon we're heading over to Semporna, spending the night there. Tomorrow morning off to Pom Pom, then one night in Semporna before going back to Kota Kinabalu. I'll get one more night in KK if all goes as planned on our Pom Pom re-con trip. Then I hope to buy some wine to bring back to camp, and books. I need my books.
This time I've booked another hotel for Fri-Sat in KK. Jesselton, much cheaper than Horizon and in the same area. Will be interesting to see the standard on that one.
Will be a couple of days with a lot of travelling on hotels nights, but that is all good. It's important that we get as good of a plan as we can for the Pom Pom re-build.
Saturday I'm going back to camp with the Brunei-team.
Monday was Songkran (Thai New Year), how I wish I would've been on Koh Tao for the celebrations. Last year was a blast, all this water craziness brought back the child in me.
I'm so going to go to Koh Tao for my birthday, be with some amazing people and just be me :)
Miss my family, most of all my sister, my lillsnutt, my friends in Sweden and my friends on Koh Tao. But I'm not homesick, don't miss Sweden and the life I had there, I just miss the people there and me and my sisters barbecue weekends with bubbles and great barbecue :)
Hope to be able to give my next update on Friday, after I've gotten back from Semporna/Pom Pom. Hope to have some pictures for you then!
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