Selamat malam semua! So I've been here in Kepala Batas for almost a week now and I'm begining to settle in little by little. Today was the first day of classes for the year and so we started the day with a whole school assembly. It went for TWO HOURS. TWO HOURS....in a hot..VERY hot noisy hall. However it was possibly one of the funniest things I have ever sat through. Don't get me wrong the speeches etc.. were boring and I didn't understand most of it but we sat on the stage with the teachers who talked and gossiped the WHOLE way through. Ahahah they were doing marking, writing on paper and passing notes, playing games on their mobile phones and I even saw one answer his phone on stage...while speeches were going on. It was amazing. meanwhile the students actually listened. hahah. Rachel and I also gave a small speech which was a bit intimidating but it turned out fine. Everytime we said anything they clapped: "Hi im Rachel *applause* I'm from England *applause*".
We are also getting used to being stared at. Since this is a boarding school (and they are hardly ever allowed out) we have become the local entertainment. Today we went to a form 5 class (which is the final year of school - they are 17 years old) and they asked us questions about Australia/the UK and ourselves. Their english comprehension is really good but some of them are too nervous to talk. I think the two funniest questions we got were "Is everyone as tall as you where you live?" and "Do you believe in love?". Oh and I told them if I'm going to Penang for Chinese New Year and one of the boys said "can I follow you?" to which I pomptly affirmed the answer to be no.
Here at the school there is an "English Motivation Council" (EMC) which encourages students to speak english etc.. The president of the EMC has amazing english. He lived in Perth of 4 years so he sort of has an Aussie accent. Its so funny though he gets so embarrased talking to us and has told us that "I'm not good at talking to girls". Hahah he is so nice and cute. There is another girl in the EMC which follows us around and is nice but is going to get annoying after 5 months.
We are taking our first class tomorrow so I'm off to prepare! Hope everyone is well, Love Han xoxo
