Quick heads up: due to unfortunate technological limitations im not going to be able to upload any photos, the bits everyone is after, until I get back to malaysia. I'll try and keep the verbal descriptions up to date until then. Sorry.

Kuala Lumpur

We arrived in KL via a bus, the 8 of us looked like the biggest tourists in the world with rucksacks far to big for us and facial expressions that clearly showed we had no idea where we were, or where we were going. The only reason we ever made it to our respective accommodations in chinatown was down to the brilliant simplicity of KLs monorail network. Either way, we were al in our diferent hotels by 8. Helena and alex at their hotel (30rm each per night), callum, james and immy at their guesthouse (30rm each per night) and me, dan and dale at the erm.....place, that I had found (9rm each per night). I was actually really happy about our accommodation, although I did fall off the top bunk once.
That nignt we all headed into the chinese market for some food and to find some bargains. Had some really nice chinese noodles with pork (I had been missing it a tad). Our market trip wasn't all that good, we were all a little thrown by the sight of shopkeepers beating up a thief. It just sort of made us move on from each stall pretty quick. Anyway us guys spent the rest of the night playing card games with backpackers at the guesthouse, until we met up with the girls at a reggae bar for some drinks. It was a good night overall.
On the second day we all felt we needed to embrace some traditional malay culture, so we all neaded to The Curve shopping complex and watched thor 2 in the cinema. Sorry culture. That night the girls went out with a friend from school, us lads set out on foot to find the fabled little india. I'm not going to sugar coat it. We were hoplessly lost for 3 hours so we aint McDonald's and went home. Again, sorry culture.
On the third day we all went to MARA HQ in the morning to pjck up our work visa application forms, then we headed off to KLCC where the petronas towers are for some shopping, the whole place was a little more "upmarket" than we could afford but it was nice to talk around for a bit. That night we all met up again at the reggae bar and hung around until they closed.
The next morning, our last day in KL, me, dan and dale set out early to go see the 'batu caves' which was also good, we also took another stab at finding little india, this time we found it and indulged in some rather delicious curries. We wereall supposed to go out that night, but due to a communication breakdown us three boys ended up alone in our room playing uno while everyone else had fun. Oh well.
On the 15th we got up early and had a McDonald's breakfast before all meeting up for a bus ride to the airport. Took around 2 hours. The airport exoerience was pretty generic really. Lots of standing around and waiting for things to happen. One little highlight was when we found a sweet shop that allowed free tasters of the penny-chew sweets. Me and alex must have done atleast three circuits. Was feeling pretty sick by the time we eventually boarded the plane. Still onto cambodia!

English Camp

English Camp
We packed up pretty much all of our belongings, apart from household sortfof things like cockroach killer and smart work clothes, and at about 5am on the 8th of October we boarded the bus for the 19 hours drive to english camp in Perak. We had been informed that we would be vital members of english camp, but other than that we had no real information about what it would involve.
English camp was a four day camp where MRSM schools from all over the country sent their best english speaking students for some activities. Over the course of the weekend groups of students and teachers from a mix of different schools and states took part and competed in a number of games and activities with a variety of rules. However there was one rule that was to be strictly observed at all times, even outside of the classes; strictly no speaking any language but english. And that was where we, the 12 whities, came into the picture. We were the english police. It was our job to enforce the use of the golden language.
We weren't all that strict in our police work, otherwise we wouldnt have been very popular, but we saw a lot of really odd group creations, especially on the last night for the fashion show (photos pending).

I dont want to miss out details from english camp so I'll probably go over it at some point, I just want to keep the blog chronologically updated as I travel and im about 2 weeks behind now. From english camp we travelled to KL