Argh so much more to say...ok:
OK so after language week we had normal classes again. ON the Wednesday of that week (the 15th of April) I went to a Hockey tournment which our school massively lost but still it was fun to go along especially since Izan the sport teacher is really cool and always super nice to us...buying us food and taking us places where we are stuck. Then that weekend we drove with Wan to KL where we stayed with her family in...somewhere in KL. I can't remember but it was about 30 mins out from the centre. We spent the next 4 nights there because we had the 20th-22nd off becuase the kids had exams. We spent our time in KL eating Wan's mother's amazing cooking, hanging out with her lovely family including two adorable kids Aina and Riduwan, shopping for presents for various kids and teachers and being tourists! We went up KL tower which was quite expensive..38RM! (OK its like 15 bucks but still expensive for Malaysia). So we stayed up the top for ages getting a really good view of KL and our moneys worth! At the bottom of the tower there were 3 "activities" we could do, included in that 38rm. hahah these activities were the biggest shambles...but sooo funny. We went to a "snow park" which was a bunch of foam snowmen and other white..stuff. There was also spray on snow drapped over palm trees...strange. Then we gave the animal park a miss and went to the horse ride/photo instead. Ok so the horse ride was around like half a car park so we took the photo instead...it is one of my favourite photos of all time..I'm wearing a Baju Malayu (boys traditional clothes) and Rachel is wearing a cowboy outfit (these were the only two costumes they had). It was super random and lame but super funny for those reasons! Anyway we also we up the Petronas towers...just coz we totally needed to get another slightly different and not as good view of KL.
Ok then we got back to school on the Wednesday night, taught on Thurs, Fri then on the Saturday we went to Rathi's Mother-in-law's house. She lives in Kedah, Gurun, a small town with a large minority of Indians..I think. But yeah we pretty much just ate AMAZING indian food for 2 days. I loved it! We also went shopping and bought Punjabi suits (well I got 1 and Rach got 2) and after casually mentioning that I would like to get my nose pierced, Rach and I ended up nin a mall getting our noses done, for like 6rm..SO CHEAP. So yeah I have my nose pierced.
We came back to school on Sunday our school held a Silat tournment for 4 days. Silat is a Malay martial art and is SUPER COOL. I loved watching all the different events..let me try and remember them all. There was Tari (dance) which is just a display performed by one person, another where two people perfromed a corographed fight, one where 3 & 4 people did a display in time and one only for boys where 3 people did a different kind of Silat display in time. I also really enjoyed meeting some new kids and hanging out with some I didn't really know before Silat.
Then after Silat we went back to KL.... (coz thre was no classes that week. The kids all had to go home to make room in the dorms for all the participants) Rachel needed to pick up a visa for Vietnam and we still had to get a few presents. We also spent a day with some the kids from school. It was Emirol, Azzam, Azri (who all did drama) and Firdaus. We went bowling, played table soccer and most importantly ATE..as usual. It was heaps of fun.
Once we were back at school we started our two week count down...ok this needs its own blog entry...
Laters, han xo
