First Day at Jerudong International School

Don’t they both look soooooooooooo cute!!??

Yellow watermelon!!!

Who would’ve thunk it!!!! Like every fruit here- it is sooooooooooo juicy!!! The perfect way to open a fast!! (droooooooooool..............)

Tour of the Water Village/Proboscis monkeys

This again arranged by the school and was a tour for the partners and children of the teachers at JIS (Jerudong International School). The boat ride consisted of a tour of the water village and also to see if we could spot any proboscis monkeys. It was a beautiful day and the boat ride was just amazing. I really wasn’t expecting to see anything to be honest and really was just enjoying the boat ride. But we pulled up and saw about 4 monkeys in the trees! I was gob smacked! I tried to take pictures but the stupid camera kept dying on me. I think it was due to the humidity but I got a few blurry shots. I also got to see a monitor lizard and we thought we saw a crocodile but it did look very much like a floating log so I wasn’t too sure!


Excited Yusuf


Our boat


The Water Village


Montor lizard!!

Monitor lizard again!!

I think these are called Mangrove trees. They were just amazing. The roots were huge.

Proboscis Monkey!

The Sultans Palace

Nothing to do with Brunei...............

but look what I did!!!! All by myself (and an online tutorial)!! I am well chuffed!


(In case you actually don't know what I did, it's called selective colourisation- the blue bit on my dress)

Tour with John Price (Headteacher)

This was arranged by the head teacher and was small tour of some busy areas. We saw the Sultans' Palace and went to a beautiful mosque. For some reason we weren’t allowed to take pictures of the inside of the mosque but it was beautiful. Very peaceful.

We also went to the flower market which had some beautiful flowers and plants.They were so incredibly cheap. I think we will be going back again to buy loads for the apartment once we're settled in.


(my favourite)


(Chilli plants)





(We were really impressed with these until we noticed the guy had cut some branches from his lemon tree at home, stuck them in a pot and was trying to sell them!)


(The Sultan's Palace)

Tungku Beach

This was the most amazing gorgeous beach EVER!! We came here on the day we landed and it really helped make us feel slightly better and less homesick. The water was literally turquoise. We felt we were in heaven!

This is how we felt at the end of the day :-)

Are you all jealous yet?