September ? 1972 Group of students from St. Michael Secondary School, Sandakan visited Kuala Sapi for a 1 Day School Outing
From Sandakan Town they came by land to Beluran Town, from here they took a boat to Kuala Sapi.
After a few rounds of "Shell be coming round the mountain when she comes....." at the village community hall, the boys have an enjoyable football game at the field just beside this hall. The girls stroll around this small simple village of about 100 villagers young and old including me.
A wooden school hostel is just behind the football goal where all the young boarding students sit by the stair and amazed at these big brothers from the town, a "big big town' in their mind at that time a town where they wish to go see one day. They are the children of the Kazazan farmers. They are boarders here because their isolated Kadazan villages just too small to a school. So their parent had to send them here to pursuit education.........
Its time to go home, students from town all return to their waiting long boat. We waved good bye to each other...........
A week past, I received a letter from one of the student " Dear Wong, ...................... I left my coin box at the corner of football goal....... can you find it and keep it for me?........................."
I delightfully reply instantly. " Dear.................... Don't worry. After you left. A school boy came to me and gives me a heavy coin box with lot of coins inside....... He told me he found it at the football field .................... I am keeping the box for you...."
An honesty of the village children is a virtues difficulty to find in city children. Thought living in little material means, they up keep the Kadazan traditional of honesty and this small boy, I have no knowledge of his name, but he is among the many many children from the near by villages with the same quality of honous tradition.
True enough, among these pure hearted village children, one is to arise in years to come to be a bishop of the Anglican Church of Malaysia - the first from Kadazan tribe to be made an Anglican bishop in the world.
