So much to catch up on! Apologies in advance for length of this one. So the last blog ended with me waiting around to begin volunteering. Well, we spent two weeks volunteering with MESCOT/KOPEL, a community conservation project and it was amazing! We were staying in homestays in a village on the Kinabatangan river, living with families for five days at a time and living as they do. For us this involved new experiences such as eating on the floor, using our hands, going to Muslim feasts, wearing traditional clothes, washing with a bucket of rain water. Very different from what we're used to but that was what was so great about it. It was fantastic to live like locals instead of tourists and I loved the village! Everyone was so friendly and welcoming; all of
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