** As promised before, we are going to tell about the rest of our journey..
. The first part of the journey (click here to view the 1st part of the journey) has been told earlier. The first part tells about the 1st phase of our journey, while the 2nd part explains the rest. The 1st phase explains how we interact and discussed with the secretary of the village, Pak Yatim, and the agreement between the team and him..
**heee..At last, its time for the team, and supporters (which helped us A LOT by giving moral support and in doing the activities together with us..
) to approach the villagers to accomplish our mission. We (the Wonderers) had agreed to do a few activities here in this village. Besides having a concept of 'mentor-mentee' between the youths and kids in the village with us, we also planned to share our knowledge about ICT with them. This is to enhance the interest towards ICT in them, besides exposing them to the current communication through ICT applied.
After we've met Pak Yatim, its finally the time for us to seek the villagers. After a few minutes of driving, we stopped at one of the corner of the village, where the houses are close to each other (it somehow makes our approach more effective when the houses are near to each other).
All of us split into 3 groups, approaching house by house. At that time (nearly 12 PM), most villagers gathered in front of of their house and were cutting fruits to make 'jeruk'. According to them, these fruits were provided by a Chinese man, and after cutting the fruits and make jeruk, the Chinese paid them RM5 for a big basket of jeruk. They were average and older women, with their children playing around them. It was fun to see such thing.
. We waited no longer, and approached these villagers. At one of the houses, the mother called her daughter when we mentioned about ICT, computers and Internet, while her little sons stood all around us. They were keen to know what's going on, and what computer is all about. The interest that they showed attracted us to explain to them the basic things about computer. It made them even more excited when we brought laptop to show them the content of it.
. A few minutes later, her daughter came to us, as she stayed in her room before this due to the shyness she has towards the boys in our team.
. We (the girls) had to actually ask ALL the boys in our team to go to the corner of the house, in order to attract the daughter to come to us..
. They (the daughter and her little brothers) then surrounded Fara, which was the one holding the laptop. Dila explained to them one by one, about blog, Yahoo! Group, and ICT in common. They seemed attracted.
, while Syida and Shera approached others that were in front of the house too.. We made few conversations with the granny, mother, and the rest of the family. The friendliness in them made us comfortable during the chat. 
. During the chat, one of our team members actually felt sad
. It started out when one of the makcik's son joined in the chit chat with elder ones. The boy looks concerned towards our chat. When the team members tried to explained to them about ICT ect, that makcik suddenly said, "takpe dik, tak payah cakap dengan budak tu. dia tu pelat, susah nak paham..". The team member kept quiet for a while, wondering the little boy's weakness. It reminded her of her little brother at home, and what if her liitle bro's in this condition. Her feeling was touched. 
. All she could is to pray for the kid's success, and may the child gow up to be a wise and successful gentlemen. Amin. hmmm..
At the end of the chit chat, and explanations by the team, we shook on their hands. Shera, while smiling, said,"sedapnye bau jeruk ni. kalau tak puasa, bole la merasa", in a kidding mode. Shockly, the granny went to the kitchen, and took out a plastic bag full of jeruk!
. We said, "eh, takpela makcik, kami gurau je. tak payah la makcik, menyusahkan makcik je..". But then the granny insisted in giving the jeruk. We then accepted it, and expressed a million thanx to the family, for their jeruk and positive support to us. 
We went a few more houses, and approached the villagers in a friendly way. There were even kids that called upon their friends, and gathered them in front of the surau. All of us had a rest at the side of the surau, while a few of us explained to the kids about our activity. It shocked us again, when the kids said," kami tahu komputer, tapi tak pernah pegang. cikgu je yang pegang. ada kat sekolah je. kat rumah kami takde..". It shows that they were never exposed widely to computers. Syida and Shera told them about computer, and how it can actually bring them closer to the outside world. Fairuz said, "korg pernah dengar tak orang kat Malaysia borak-borak dengan orang kat India ke, England ke, pada masa yang sama. Macam tu la konsep chatting kat Internet. Benda tu semua ada dalam komputer,...". We tried our best to explain to them in the most interesting way.
We soon opened our laptops, and showed them the basic functionality of it, such as listening to music, play games and watch favourite cartoon series through it. They seemed attracted.
. At the end of our chat with the kids, Nina said," nanti, adik-adik belajar bersungguh, masuk universiti, pastu beli la komputer. nanti mak ayah adik pun gembira kalau adik jadi orang yang berjaya masa besar nanti..". 10 minutes later, after having a small discussion between us (the Wonderers and supporters), we agreed to stop by Pak Yatim's house, to inform him that we were about to leave. After stopping by and say thanx to him, we went back..
We were happy and satisfied on the visit to the village. The satisfaction of communicating, explaining, the chit chats, and the responds of the community cannot be expressed by words. It overwhelmed us. And priceless.
We stopped by at a nearby mosque on the way back, to perform prayer. Nearly two hours later, we arrived at Shah Alam. We chose 'Seri Bunga Tomyam Seafood' in Sek 20 as the place to 'berbuka puasa' ramai-ramai, after a tiring day.
.* we forgot to mention something. We had given pamphlets and small gifts to the villagers that we met. The smile in their faces had somehow soothed us
the pictures that we took can be seen in the slideshow below. Enjoy it!
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sound so interesting... :) feel likely to join you guys :D
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