Tiring day!!

Woke up around 7 and went to meet my old friend, Shiun Lei whom just arrived at Heathrow from Malaysia. I took a train from WhteChapel to Piccadilly Circus via underground. Waited in front of the exit gate ( where you touch your Oyster Card) for quite almost 30 minutes... It happens that he was waiting for me on the ground and I was just right under him...

I became his KULI - carrying his 24kg luggage around London - went to have breakfast at McD near China Town - non of the shop in China Town opened before 9. I had a breakfast meal before accompanying him to Euston National Rail station.. First Job's DONE!!!

So I head back to QueenMary. Once I arrived at the entrance, guess what I met Linda and the rest carrying their Summer storage from the very nearby Safe Storage Company. Huh... What an exercise to do... And here I am - muscles pain and exhausted!!

Volunteering in Liverpool - Liverpool Habitat For Humanities (LHFH)

The most common activities a Malaysian will do when Easter Holiday begins is TRAVEL. Of course that is going to cost a lot of money at least GBP 100 for accommodation and transportation plus all the food and souvenirs. However I got a free travel to Liverpool from the 31st March to 2nd April 2009 due to a volunteering project. It is called the Liverpool Habitat For Humanities (LHFH).

In this volunteering project, the volunteers are supposed to assist in the construction of house. What's so fun about it? It is just the experience that matter me. I always thought that building a house is as easy as what I see. But in reality it is really tough.

This is the main office of the construction site.

At first I thought this was the house that Wee Seng and I were going to help on. Sadly, we came at the wrong time. Why I say it so? Volunteer are only allowed to carry out the task for the first phase which is the ground floor. Once the 2nd phase started only professional are allowed they already started with the second floor construction, volunteer aren't allowed to go on second floor but the professional.

Instead of working on the main site, volunteers were allocated with painting task. The tools storage massive container was our target as shown below. Painting wasn't an easy task - tiring, boring, and back pain but it is the easiest task of all.
Imagine that we were allocated with a harder and more complicated task?, I just don't want to imagine it.

Some other volunteers on that day

Wee Seng with the brush

Of course volunteering wasn't the only thing we do in Liverpool. Ops spending too much time writing blogs, will continue my visit in this historical city in the next post. :P

To be continued .. .... ...