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Hello Friends,
me and my luggage have finally arrived in Malaysia, wooohoo! After a very long journey from Frankfurt via Doha (where me and other passengers had to run to manage to be on the last call for the boarding of our connection flight due to a 1 hour delay) and Kuala Lumpur by plane and ferry I arrived this early afternoon (at time for lunch, ahah) in the incredibly overwhelmingly beautiful island of Pulau Jerejak. This is a small island covered all over with rainforest located very close to the Penang island. Here, the Friends of the Earth International Conference on Forests, Biodiversity, Communities and Indigenous peoples is taking place at a resort.
After taking a shower (it's hot and the air is very humid) and an afternoon nap I was ready to discover a bit the island, saw monkeys and a big lizard (Mama, du haettest deine Freude gehabt!).
Tomorrow the conference will start- there is going to be workshops on various issues around the title of the conference... More on this later...
There is a couple of young people from the network here and I am already looking forwards to exchange with them what other Young Friends of the Earth Initiatives are going around in the world and what they are campaigning on etc. ... Everybody here is very happy to see that young people are also present and I was welcomed very warmly by members of Sahabat Alam Malaysia (FoE Malaysia).
I am trying to find a USB-cable to upload some pictures that you get an impression how it is here and make this blog a bit more interesting!
More news coming soon, I hope you are all doing well back at home and I am looking forwards to hear from you!
Love,
Fluxy