A Report on Journey into the Deep Blue Sea

          On the 28th of April 2012, The Leo Club of Assunta organized a trip for the children of Rumah Juara to Kuala Lumpur Conventional Center (KLCC), Aquaria Science. Thirteen leos and two teacher advisor which were Puan Betty Toh and Lion Malcolm accompanied us there with approximately 19 children from the home.

          The traffic jam was quite bad, so we unloaded the bus and began to walk. The walk was a really fun one. The Leos got to bond with the children even more. When we arrived, the children waited at the waiting room where videos of underwater life was shown while waiting for their tickets to be bought. The children enjoyed watching the videos and couldn’t wait to go in after that. Before going in, the leo president briefed the children on the rules and regulations.

          After the tickets were bought, we were allowed to go in. Everyone lined up in a straight line as we went through the entrance. Each leo had to be incharge of atleast a kid each for safety reasons. Everyone had a great opportunity to see the many varieties of fish such as huge stingrays and huge white sharks. We were even able to touch coral, a baby shark and even a starfish! It was a great experience for both leos and the children.

          We were even privileged to watch two feeding sessions which were the feeding of the otters and the fish feeding show. The children were really excited during all the feedings and watched attentively. Everyone was asked to sit down at the ‘fish theater’ to watch the fish feeding. We saw divers feeding the large and starving stingray, turtles and colourful seafish.

         After the feeding sessions, we continued our walk around aquaria. We saw an Albino Chinese Softshell Turtle that is very rare nowadays and other amphibians and reptiles which we have never seen before. Before going out, all the children and leos made a pledge to not eat shark fin soup to save the sharks in the wild that are going to be under extinction soon. Everyone that pledged was given a badge each.

          We had great fun with the orphanage kids. They were very amazed by the sea creatures that they saw there. Before leaving, we took a group picture together outside of Aquaria. At around 2pm, we sent the orphanage kids back to their orphanage and gave them lunch. After long goodbyes, we walked to our bus and got back to our school. Once we arrived at school, we were provided with food and drinks. We were very tired and exhausted after the trip, but we were glad that we had fun with the orphanage kids. I look forward towards having a charity program like this in the future.

Report by,
Diviyah Rani.