Week 10 - Jungle Trekking At Diplomatic Resident

On 18^th October 2009(Sunday), Our activity for BEACA’s group were going to jungle trekking at Diplomatic Resident, Brunei Muara district.This week(week 10), my position as trek organizer and Hj Irwan as my partner. As trek organizer, we make sure that all volunteers for week 10 need to do their tasks given. On that day, I also become sweeper and my group leader is Malek, so I handle two position as trek organizer and sweeper. As usual sweeper need to help leader to find right pathway and makesure all members in our group not out tracks. Our group consists of Leader(Malek), sweeper (myself), our members were Kyeem and Azmey. Purpose of experience to explore environment in our country and reduce littering environment. Our group is the third group sign in to the forest.

Our highlight for activity to keep our environment clean and to see the unique of our county environment. We must know that Brunei Darussalam also rich in flora and fauna. The most anxiety, our group almost lost, because I confuse too many tracks and marks in the jungle. With the help by Dr Irene, she told me to find the right marks. So our leader manage to find the correct pathway.There are one experience that surprise me, I saw big ant nest stick on tree and big ‘pandan’ leaves.

Pandan leaf

Ant Nest

Learning aspects of the experience in term of business and economic for Brunei Darussalam, my suggestion we need to reserve our forests probably for researcher or attract tourism but we must keep it clean and beautiful. Makesure no one will damage flora and fauna in the forests. If many tourism come to our country and sure our economic will also growth.

Three most important things that I have learnt:-

1. We don’t just become as ‘follower’, we need to be confident with ourself.

2. To organize for one activity or function, we need to show our creativity, credibility and show off our leadership skills.

3. As one group, we need to help each other or teamwork.

My future behaviour after my experience were I need to help and work together to conserve our forests from extinct. For example, government and non government sector must collaborate for example make plan for project and motivational talks on how we conserve our forests. Government also need to highlight forest law for all people.

Last but not least, I learnt many things from our activity. I really enjoy with our jungle trekking because it was adventure and we also need to fit for our mentality and physically. Hope next activity more challenging and I want to learnt more exprience.

Dr Irene said that we learnt from our exprience and sometime exprience we learnt, we can't find it from the books.