We Made It!

We arrived safely in Kuala Lumpur after an 11 hour flight to Hong Kong, a two hour stopover and another flight which lasted 3hrs and 20 minutes. After Jo commenting loudly on how bad it would be if we were to star in the TV show 'Banged Up Abroad', we safely made it through immigration, no questions asked. We were picked up at KL Central train station by two ladies, Saradha and Kala. They took us to lunch. "You must be so hungry," they said. We replied with a yes, although we had had a total of three meals plus various other snacks on the plane. We went to a nice Chinese restaurant where we met Pastor Henry, who took us to our village, Bukit Sentosa where the school and our flat is located.

We arrived at the flat and our flatmate King, another teacher, was waiting. Some children from the school swiftly picked up our heavy bags with absolute ease and took them up to our flat. We chatted with King and our other flatmate Timwei for a while, then had a little tour of the village. We live right next to the big Tesco, very useful! Our block of flats is where a lot of the Myanmar refugees live and many of them go to the school that we will be teaching at. The next day we went to school to meet the children and so on. We also met Hannah, the previous volunteer. It was her last day at the Agape School and she gave us lots of tips for when we start on Monday.

In the evening Pastor Henry took us out for dinner with his wife Serena and a few of the children from the home. It was delicious, we had some Indian curry with a varity of breads. Also got to sample some traditional Malaysian tea, very tasty!

Today we've been into Kuala Lumpur, I think we are now experts at getting the bus. The city seems cool, we went up the Menara tower and then took a tourist bus around. I kept falling asleep, I don't think the jetlag has fully left me yet. Now we are just passing the time before we go out for dinner. I think we will go to the same restaurant as last night as they will be showing the Chelsea game. One of us is a big fan, and the other not so much... but I'm sure it will be fun anyway!